Boyhood (Film)
- Ellar Coltrane: Mason
- Patricia Arquette: Olivia
- Ethan Hawke: Mason Sr.
- Lorelei Linklater: Samantha
- Tamara Jolaine: Tammy
- Nick Krause: Charlie
- Jordan Howard: Tony
- Evie Thompson: Jill
- Sam Dillon: Nick
- Marco Perella: Bill
- Brad Hawkins: Jim
Boyhood is an American feature film by director Richard Linklater with Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke in the lead roles. The film was realized in a period of 12 years. The first recordings took place in the summer of 2002, closed in October 2013 Linklater from the project.
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2014. In Germany he ran for the first time in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival 2014 at the Richard Linklater was awarded the Silver Bear for best director for him.
Action
The film shows 12 years in the life of the young Mason from Austin, from his beginnings in the school age of 6 until his admission to the College. Mason has many problems with his busy sister Samantha and his parents, who live in divorce. His single mother Olivia comes after the separation of Masons father again and again to the wrong men.
Background
Linklater initially planned only a film about childhood, but did not want to be confined to a phase in the process. Hence the idea to put a film over the entire childhood of a person was born. First Linklater convinced his long -time regular actor Ethan Hawke from the project. Shortly thereafter, Patricia Arquette was cast as the mother. The role of Mason occupied Linklater with the then six-year Ellar Coltrane. The role of Mason's sister Samantha occupied the director with his daughter Lorelei Linklater.
The financing of the project took over the New York film distributor IFC Films.
The 39 days of shooting were distributed relatively evenly over the 12 years, the crew always came together for three to four days of shooting per year. Then Linklater went with the editor Sandra Adair immediately at the intersections of each section, they then seamlessly anfügten to the already finished film parts.
The long gestation period also brought technical challenges. In 2002, the team began with the shooting of the film on 35 mm film, but was then increasingly replaced by digital production methods. Additional problems came with outdated equipment and steadily deteriorating quality of development studios.
Reception
The reviews of the film were positive. So Linklaters holds film at Rotten Tomatoes with an average score of 100 %, based on 14 reviews. In Metacritic he achieved an average rating of 96 % based on 7 reviews.
The critic of Entertainment Weekly called the film a " charming and unique " and " visionary " movie art. Indie Wire awarded for the film, the Linklaters ' perceptive power " is so far the best grade A and praised the performances of the actors. The Guardian critic Xan Brooks also awarded a top grade and called Boyhood an " amazing performance " and a " beautiful film."
Also from German critics of the film after the Berlinale performance was reviewed almost invariably positive.