Friday, August 1, 2014

Movie Review: Boyhood

Rated R
165 minutes
Directed by Richard Linklater

Boyhood is a brave frontier in filmmaking. Filmed over 12 years, Linklater has every house, school, car, and, most importantly, actor for significant stretches of time. No extras are replaced, no reshoots are needed. Everything is just a progression through time and space itself. Everything had to be just right for this film to be pulled off, and everything was just right. Call it a fluke, extraordinarily good luck, psychic powers, or just plain unbelievable, but it happened. And man, was it lucky that it got made and that it managed to be this good.

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