Experimentation has long been a part of film – directors will do things like only use natural light, or cast locals instead of professional actors, or use only the first take of every scene, or some shit like that. But Richard Linklater’s Boyhood looks to be an entirely new experiment: filmed over the course of TWELVE YEARS, it follows Mason (newcomer Ellar Coltrane) as he matures from a child to what looks like a college-bound teenager.
Linklater has never been shy on experimentation; just look at A Scanner Darkly, Waking Life, or his “Before” trilogy, which was filmed over a decade. Boyhood hits theaters July 11.
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