Grade: A++++++
Notable People: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Lorelei Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Directed by Richard Linklater
Title: Boyhood
Review –THIS IS FILMMAKING….best movie I’ve seen in years- unique, groundbreaking, masterful. Drove over an hour each way, in the rain, to Dartmouth to see this last night (no art films in the mountains)- and it would have been worth three times the trip. Linklater is a master of his craft. He has been on cutting edge for last 20 years with all kinds of novel approaches but this one takes the cake. Basically, he filmed this movie about family and growing up over 12 years with the same actors in the same roles- coming back once a year to film again. The kids really grow up on film and the parents go through all of life’s stuff before our very eyes. Hawke, Arquette and Linklater’s daughter, Lorelei, are fabulous. Ellar Coltrane in the lead role is magical and mystical. This is one great film. Go, Go, Go….NOW