Boyhood

Boyhood is a drama from acclaimed director Richard Linklater (The Before series). The film focuses on Mason who is six years of age when it starts, and follows him as he grows to the age of 18. Over the years he deals with issues every growing boy tackles: girls, puberty, all that fun stuff. The unique thing about the film though is that Linklater started shooting in 2002 when the film’s star, Ellar Coltrane, was only 8 years, and shot for 15 days each year until 2013 when the film finished. The film co-stars Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason’s divorced parents and Lorelei Linklater as his older sister Samantha.

Linklater knew it would be tough to get a studio to commit to this film, but that didn’t deter him. “It was like taking a great leap of faith into the future. Most artistic endeavours strive to have a certain amount of control but there were elements of this that would be out of anyone’s control. There were going to be physical and emotional changes and that was embraced. I was ready for it to be a constant collaboration between the initial ideas I had for the piece and the reality of the changes happening to the actors along the way. In a way, the film became a collaboration with time itself, and time can be a pretty good collaborator, if not always a predictable one.”

Boyhood is rated 14A.

Read our review of the film here.

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