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| Ellar Coltrane (IFC) |
Richard
Linklater’s spectacularly-detailed and gently-moving exploration of growing up
and growing old was among the year’s most talked-about pictures, and rightly
so. Filming over a fifteen-year period, Linklater’s perceptiveness in how the
way we move, converse, flirt and identify delicately changes as time passes on
is as beautifully relatable as it is eerily accurate. He captures the role that
time plays in parenthood and in childhood, and in so doing, tells a grand
humanistic story of love, compassion and family in 21st Century
America. Anchored by an unexpected, vibrant turn from Patricia Arquette and
perfectly-pitched supporting work from Linklater muse Ethan Hawke, Boyhood finds universality in its commitment to specificity. A