Life Story, United States, 2014, 166 min. Direction and script: Richard Linklater Photo:. Daniel Lee, Shane Kelly Interpreters. Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Lorelei Linklater, Jordan Howard, Tamara Jolaine, Tyler Strother Movies:. Cinesur Nervión Plaza.
Since its introduction in Berlin where Linkater took the Golden Bear for best director, Boyhood is possibly the film that has made rivers of ink to run more specialized critics among this season. It is therefore almost impossible to say anything particularly original about it at this point, if any point that this is a great little feat fiction film developed over time (12 years of shooting, about same characters that grow and develop in screen) that synthesizes, naturally, easily and without visible seams, production models, approach and narration of the documentary film and television serial fiction, where yes we have seen grow into a few characters throughout the years and successive seasons.
Worried about the time and since that seminal narrative and Slacker driven by the structure of randomness, Linklater achieved in Boyhood an unusual naturalism in his account Life Mason (Ellar Coltrane, he would say that playing create a parallel character), a story in which the marks of movie , their times, their transitions, their knots, conclusions or morals , are virtually erased in a flow in this a continuum narrative seems to serve no other logic than the natural progression of time and its operation mechanism as an existential logic that knows neither dramatic turning points, explanations, exceptional events or specific to a writer intensifications school.
Boyhood unfolds before us as a sort of mirror of life without special attributes, such as initiation story between childhood, youth and adolescence, punctuated by some historical references and cultural (the songs!), pronounced in the right tone, without twists or surprises, very subtly observed through the perspective construction of a child growing before us without giving lessons without too much stress its internal process, generational disagreements with parents without judging harshly to any of his creatures, even those men who cross without much success in the life of the mother (Patricia Arquette), much less an absent and perhaps irresponsible father ( Ethan Hawke) whose luminous appearances weekend burst out as an authentic outdoor lessons of life outside the family home.
Above all, Boyhood is also the portrait of a changing body and mind transformation, the evolution of a world view that is returned to the viewer without imposing, smoothly, with a Linklater at full maturity, owner and full of a moral vision of life and a cinematic ways that we fully identified, a filmmaker inspired following rewriting title to title a certain narrative tradition in American cinema has managed to integrate European modernity without losing the slightest sign of local identity along the way. And, in his hands, Texas may also be the world.
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