Film critic and author Peter Rainer gives a review of the epic drama Boyhood and discusses the career of the director who created the unique 12-year film project, indie icon Richard Linklater.
Rainer describes Linklater as an “amazing director” with incredible diversity that definitely shows through in Boyhood. “He can do a movie like School of Rock, which is a great, very mainstream, funny comedy, and then he can do the Before Sunrise trilogy, which is extraordinary, like a European film.”
“Boyhood, I think like a number of my colleagues perhaps, I overrated it a bit when I first saw it,” he said, explaining that he was wowed with the epic nature of the project to tell the story of a boy over a 12-year span. “It took 12 years to make this movie, so at the end of the day the six-year-old this kid is now 18 - so that’s pretty amazing.”
He said while the film does have some impressive scenes, the beauty of the film comes more its totality. “If you isolate particular scenes from this film - if you just look at individual scenes from this movie out of context – you’d say ‘oh, that’s a pretty interesting scene.’
“There’s nothing startlingly great about anything in this film scene by scene, it’s’ just that all together, it’s greater than the sum of its parts.”
Watch the full interview to hear more movie reviews and to get Rainer’s top picks for the best movies of the year.
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