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Six key moments in the making of Oscar-nominated Boyhood
Director Richard Linklater cast six-year-old Ellar Coltrane to star in a coming-of-age film that took 12 years to shoot. The pair looks back at pictures from the set
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Read our review of Boyhood
Is Boyhood the most nuanced home movie of all time? Not quite, and that would diminish Linklater’s achievement. Better to say that it retrains us to let go of melodramatic expectations and simply let life unfold, a remarkably sophisticated ambition. Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
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