Boyhood (film)

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Movie
German title Boyhood
Original title Boyhood
Boyhood-logo.svg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 165 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 12
Rod
Director Richard Linklater
script Richard Linklater
production Sandra Adair
Richard Linklater
Vincent Palmo Jr.
Cathleen Sutherland
Anne Walker-McBay
camera Lee Daniel
Shane F. Kelly
cut Sandra Adair
occupation
synchronization

Boyhood ( German  Childhood ) is an American drama film directed by Richard Linklater with Ellar Coltrane , Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke in the leading roles. The film was shot over a period of twelve years, with the first recordings taking place in the summer of 2002, and Linklater completed the project in October 2013. The special thing about the film is that the actors really grow and age over the course of the very long film project, so that the growing-up story could always be staged with the same cast. In this respect, Boyhood is a fictional long-term film study. In addition, the four most important actors wrote their own dialogues within a broad framework specified by Linklater and contributed their personal experiences. Boyhood is also an experimental cinematic work insofar as the developments, especially of the young actors, were unpredictable and Linklater could only write the framework for the script every year.

The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival . In Germany it was screened for the first time in the competition at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014 , where Richard Linklater was awarded the Silver Bear for best director for his film . The film was shown in German cinemas from June 5, 2014.

action

The film shows twelve years in the life of the young Mason, from his school beginnings at the age of six to his entry into college .

In 2002, six-year-old Mason Evans and older sister Samantha lived with their single mother, Olivia, in a town in Texas . Olivia wants to go to college and move to Houston because she does n't earn enough money for the family with her current job. Despite objections from the children, the family moves to Houston shortly afterwards, where the children's grandmother, Olivia's mother, lives and can look after her grandchildren.

Olivia began studying psychology at the University of Houston in 2003 . One day Olivia's father and ex-boyfriend picks up the children from their grandmother's to go bowling with them. He will then take them directly to the family home, contrary to what has been agreed. The children show him their rooms. When Olivia comes home, she is mad at him and argues with him. The children watch the quarrel from the window, hoping that their father will stay the night fading.

Olivia takes Mason to the psychology lecture on Pavlov's reflex in 2004 and then introduces it to her professor Bill Welbrock. Bill and Olivia get married and the two families move in together. Bill brings his two children Mindy and Randy from his previous relationship, who are the same ages as Mason and Samantha. Bill initially appears as a caring family man, but soon shows himself to be a strict patriarch with an alcohol problem. After he became violent while drunk, Olivia flees the common house, later fetching her children and leaving everything behind. The family will initially live with their single friend Carol. Olivia divorces Bill and reports the incident to the youth welfare office.

During a meeting of the father Mason Ethan Sr. with his children Samantha and Mason, it comes up that the now 13-year-old Samantha has a boyfriend. The father then gives her advice on contraception. Samantha should learn from his and Olivia's mistakes and not have children too early. She is clearly embarrassed about this conversation. Then the father goes camping alone with Mason in Pedernales Falls State Park . Samantha prefers not to come along to attend a friend's party instead. Father and son open up to one another in lengthy conversations, and their relationship of trust deepens.

Olivia finished her studies in psychology with very good grades, her ex-boyfriend graduated in insurance. When Olivia gets a job teaching psychology in San Marcos at Texas State University , the family moves again. In her new home, Olivia is giving an inaugural party for her students. She gets to know Jim, one of her students and former soldiers in the Iraq war , and marries him shortly afterwards. Mason makes friends at his new school and is slowly starting to attract the interest of girls.

Ellar Coltrane (2013)

For Mason's 15th birthday, the father comes to visit with his new wife Annie and their baby. Mason and Samantha drive to Annie's parents in the Texan countryside. The father gives Mason a self-composed Post Beatles mix CD, which he calls the Black Album , and a suit. Annie's mother gives Mason a red letter bible , Annie's father hands him a shotgun. Samantha and Mason learn how to shoot, and the next day they all go to church together.

Mason goes to a party and meets Sheena there. With her as an attentive listener, he conducts long philosophical monologues. Later she becomes his girlfriend. When Mason comes home one time after midnight, there is an argument with Jim. Shortly afterwards, Olivia and Jim split up.

Mason and Sheena take a look at the University of Texas at Austin . Sheena wants to study there. Samantha is already studying there and shares a room with a roommate in the dormitory. Samantha stays with her boyfriend, leaving Mason and Sheena in bed for the night. After a visit to a music club and a restaurant, Mason and Sheena look thoughtfully over the morning city from the roof. The two overslept and are woken up by the roommate who comes home.

Patricia Arquette (2009)

During her senior year of high school , Sheena and Mason split up after Sheena hooked up with a college student and lacrosse player in distant Austin . Mason's interest and talent for photography continue to develop and he wins a silver medal and scholarship in the state photography competition. His family organized a graduation party for him. Father Mason Sr. gives his son advice on overcoming breakups. Mason goes to Sul Ross State University to study . Olivia sells the house where the family has lived for the past few years because Mason is the last child to move out. Everyone has to sort through their things and reduce them to the bare essentials because Olivia is moving into a small apartment and doesn't want to keep her children's belongings there. When Mason packs his things, Olivia cries. She says she always thought that there was more in life, but now she has all the important stages in her life behind her, the next step is her funeral. Mason relativizes her point of view and says that she left out several years with this assessment.

Mason drives to the university with his moving boxes and moves into a dorm room. There he meets his roommate Dalton, whom the university has assigned him via a questionnaire. The two go hiking in Big Bend National Park with Dalton's girlfriend and his roommate Nicole . Dalton's girlfriend gives Mason a hash cookie beforehand . Once in the national park, you can make yourself comfortable on a rock for sunset. Nicole says to Mason that you don't seize the moment yourself, but the moment seizes you. Mason replies that the moment is constant. You are always in the now.

production

Linklater initially only planned a film about childhood , but did not want to limit itself to one phase. This gave rise to the idea of ​​making a film about a person's entire childhood. Then he wanted to tell the story of a parent-child relationship from first to twelfth grade. The problem with this was that children change rapidly and significantly in the course of their development, so that this would have been very difficult to implement in the course of a normal film shoot. The solution was to stretch the shoot over 11 years and keep the actors. With this, Linklater also got involved in the developments of the actors and says, referring to the main actor Ellar Coltrane :

"And I am totally ready to adapt the story to whatever he is going through."

"And I'm absolutely ready to adapt the script to what he's going through."

In May 2002 Linklater announced that he would be making a film in his hometown of Houston starting this summer . In 2002 Linklater put together the crew with which he worked for twelve years for a few weeks a year. First, Linklater convinced his longtime regular actor Ethan Hawke of the project. Shortly thereafter, Patricia Arquette was cast as a mother. Linklater cast the role of Mason with the then seven-year-old Ellar Coltrane. The director cast Mason's sister Samantha with his daughter Lorelei Linklater.

Ethan Hawke at the 2009 Venice Film Festival

The 39 days of shooting were distributed relatively evenly over the twelve years, with the crew always meeting for three to four days of shooting per year. Then Linklater and the film editor Sandra Adair immediately started editing the respective section, which they then seamlessly added to the already finished film parts. The long period of creation also brought technical challenges with it. In 2002, the team began shooting the film on 35mm film , which was then increasingly supplanted by digital production methods. Other problems arose with outdated equipment and the steadily deteriorating quality of development studios.

Linklater shot an episode of around 15 minutes each year, the themes and content of which were created through collaboration with Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke.

Ethan Hawke said of Boyhood in 2013 :

“Also known as The Twelve-Year Project ; Richard Linklater and I have made a short film every year for the last 11 years, one more to go, that follows the development of a young boy from age 6 to 18. I play the father, and it's Tolstoy -esque in scope. I thought the Before series was the most unique thing I would ever be a part of, but Rick [Linklater] has engaged me in something even more strange. Doing a scene with a young boy at the age of 7 when he talks about why do raccoons die, and at the age of 12 when he talks about video games, and 17 when he asks me about girls, and have it be the same actor - to watch his voice and body morph - it's a little bit like timelapse photography of a human being. […] Next year, he will graduate high school and we will finish the film. It will probably come out in two years. "

“Also known as the 12 Year Project , Richard Linklater and I have made a short film every year for the past 11 years, one is still being made, that follows the development of a boy aged 6-18. I play the father and that in a Tolstoy framework. I thought beforehand that the Before trilogy was the most unique thing I've ever worked on in my life. But Rick [Linklater] got me involved in something even more wicked. To shoot a scene with a seven year old who asks why raccoons die, who talks about video games at 12 or asks me about girls at 17 - all with the same actor, seeing their voice and body changing - it's like time-lapse photography of a human Essence. […] Next year he's going to graduate from high school and we're going to finish the film. It will probably come out in two years. "

The project was financed by the New York independent film distributor IFC Films . The actors could not get contracts for their participation in the 12-year project because contracts with a term of more than seven years are not legally permitted. Linklater asked Ethan Hawke to continue and finish work on the film in the event of his death. Production company IFC spent $ 200,000 a year on Boyhood's budget , or $ 2.4 million in twelve years. Linklater enjoyed an unusually great freedom of design through the production company, to which he did not have to show any results during the production time. According to Ethan Hawke, the film was only made possible by the unconventional and uncomplicated behavior of the production company employee responsible for Boyhood , who cleverly accommodated the necessary sums for the unusual long-term shoot in the company budget.

The script was also written over a period of twelve years. The four most important actors played a key role in it. The scripts of some scenes were sometimes written the night before shooting. Lorelei Linklater asked her father after completing a turned part that her character should die. He refused.

The film project had no title until the summer of 2013, when Linklater decided on 12 Years . When he found out about the movie 12 Years a Slave , he quickly changed the title because it seemed too similar to him.

synchronization

The German dubbed version was created by RC Production Kunze & Wunder based on a dialogue book by Alexander Löwe and directed by Axel Malzacher .

role actor German Dubbing voice
Mason Evans Ellar Coltrane Pablo Ribet-Buse (child), Patrick Baehr (adult)
Olivia Evans Patricia Arquette Ulrike Stürzbecher
Mason Evans senior Ethan Hawke Frank Schaff
Samantha Evans Lorelei Linklater Hannah Pirot (child), Celina Gaschina (teen), Giovanna Winterfeldt (adult)
grandmother Libby Villari Beate Gerlach
Bill Welbrock, stepfather Marco Perella Frank Röth

reception

The reviews of the film were almost entirely positive. Linklater's film has an average rating of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes , based on 314 reviews. At Metacritic he achieved an average rating of 100 points based on 50 reviews. Boyhood is the only film of the 21st century that achieved the highest possible metascore .

The Entertainment Weekly critic called the film an "enchanting, unique and visionary" cinematic artwork. Indiewire awarded the film, which was Linklater's “most astute performance” so far, with the top grade A and praised the performance of the actors. The Guardian critic Xan Brooks also awarded a top rating and called Boyhood an "amazing achievement and a wonderful film."

Even after the Berlinale , the film received positive reviews from German critics, almost without exception.

“Look forward to every minute of 'Boyhood'. The film about a boy who is growing up to be a man captures life so sensitively and truthfully that it is only very rarely seen in the cinema. "

- THE MIRROR

“Richard Linklater worked on his film 'Boyhood' for twelve years - the chronicle of a youth that has never been seen before. And a triumph of American cinema from European tradition. "

- FAZ

“Of course there have long been filmmakers who have tried to capture the work of time on bodies, faces and dreams. ' The children of Golzow ' come to mind, the mammoth project by Barbara and Winfried Junge , which extends from the GDR in 1961 through the fall of the Berlin Wall to 2007. Michael Apted did something similar in England with the documentary series 'Up', and François Truffaut accompanied his character Antoine Doinel, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud, for over twenty years and four and a half feature films. Linklater's consistent annual inventory, packed into a single fictional narrative, is so far unique. "

- Süddeutsche Zeitung

Mick McAloon is this film, which triggers an “astonished recognition” in the audience with every time jump, two films in one: “a fictional story that is about twelve years in the life of a boy who grew up in Texas and a quasi-documentary that the fictional counterpart completely accompanies. ”He explains how François Truffaut's films They kissed and they beat him , L'amour en fuite and Michael Apted's Up series, Boyhood benefits from the time factor. The “exemplary” film that “tells something very specific (a Texas childhood in the early 21st century), on the other hand, [tells] a universally valid story.” And that too through Ethan's “subtle and authentic” play Hawke and Patricia Arquette, "In Praise of Parenthood", is next to the actual theme of Boyhood: "Time and its Eternal Presence."

In 2016, Boyhood ranked fifth in a BBC poll of the 100 most important films of the 21st century .

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Boyhood . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2014 (PDF; test number: 145 152 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Boyhood . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Justin Chang: Richard Linklater on 'Boyhood,' the 'Before' Trilogy and the Luxury of Time. In: Variety, June 25, 2014
  4. ↑ Richard Linklater's Ambitious 'Boyhood' Premieres at Sundance at slashfilm.com, accessed February 7, 2014
  5. ↑ Boyhood at berlinale.de, accessed on February 7, 2014
  6. ↑ Prizes of the International Jury at berlinale.de, accessed on February 15, 2014
  7. ↑ a b c d e Reliving 'Boyhood': how Richard Linklater spent 12 years shooting one movie at theverge.com, accessed February 7, 2014
  8. ↑ Blackburn, Rachel: Shooting begins on film that will take 12 years. In: Press Association News, May 16, 2002
  9. ↑ Sundance: In Richard Linklater's 12-year 'Boyhood,' a profile of a man at latimes.com, accessed February 7, 2014
  10. ↑ Larry Carroll: God Plans For 2013? Check Out Richard Linklater's '12-Year Movie ', in: MTV Movies, November 29, 2006
  11. ↑ Steven Rea: De Niro reassures a studio about a boy. In: The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 19, 2002
  12. ↑ Kevin Jagernauth: Ethan Hawke Says Richard Linklater's Secret, Long Developing 'Boyhood' Will Be Released In 2 Years. In: Indiewire, June 6, 2013
  13. ↑ Sundance 2014: Richard Linklater unveils 'Boyhood,' a movie 12 years in the making at insidemovies.ew.com, accessed February 7, 2014
  14. ^ Conan O'Brien, Hawke, Ethan; Rajskub, Mary Lynn; Scott, Jamie: Conan. Ethan Hawke, Mary Lynn Rajskub, And Musical Guest Jamie Scott. In: Full Episode - Tues. 8/5, TBS, August 5, 2014 ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / teamcoco.com
  15. ↑ a b Mick McAloon: Boyhood (2014) . In: Schneider, Steven Jay, Ueberle-Pfaff, Maja (ed.): 1001 films that you should see before life is over. Selected and presented by 77 international film critics. Twelfth, updated new edition. Edition Olms, Oetwil am See 2017, ISBN 978-3-283-01243-4 , p. 925 .
  16. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Boyhood. Retrieved June 2, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Boyhood at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  18. ↑ Boyhood at Metacritic (English)
  19. ↑ Sundance 2014: Richard Linklater's entrancing 'Boyhood' captures the Zen of growing up at insidemovies.ew.com, accessed February 7, 2014
  20. ↑ Sundance Review: What Richard Linklater's 12 Year Production 'Boyhood' Worth the Wait? In a Word, Yes. at indiewire.com, accessed February 7, 2014
  21. ↑ Boyhood: Sundance 2014 - first look review at theguardian.com, accessed February 7, 2014
  22. ↑ This film is entitled to the Golden Bear at welt.de, accessed on February 14, 2014
  23. ↑ Berlinale favorite Boyhood : Kind, how time flies at spiegel.de, accessed on February 14, 2014
  24. ↑ Boyhood at kino-zeit.de, accessed on February 14, 2014
  25. ↑ Every year a bit: Richard Linklater's Boyhood in competition with pearl divers retrieved on February 14, 2014
  26. ↑ Review by David Kleingers.Retrieved July 30, 2014
  27. ↑ Review by Andreas Kilb.Retrieved July 30, 2014
  28. ↑ Review by Tobias Kniebe. Accessed July 30, 2014