Boyhood

Boyhood

“Good film” I said to MM. “I liked it a lot.”

“What's it about?” he asked.

“Just a kid growing up. Nothing too much happens, really...”

“Those are the best films, sometimes” he said. Boyhood is.

An estranged mother and father. A boy living and growing up, largely, with his mother and sister.

There's a lot of rites of passage, family, human emotions and other clichés queuing up for an airing, but, really, the beauty of the film is just that: it starts, nothing spectacular, or of too much note happens, and all too soon it's all over, roll the credits, and the kid's...does 'nothing much happens' count as a spoiler?

“Who's in it?” MM said.

I had to look it up. “Nathan Hawke and Patricia Arquette, no-one else I've heard of before.

As ever, the casting people manage to get actors who look like the same person growing up to play the part.