BOYHOOD director, Richard Linklater has theorised about how the film could continue in a similar vein.
The award winning film follows Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from the age of six to eighteen, but in a particularly innovative way. Linklater started filming in 2002 and added footage over a twelve year period, using the same actors. Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke and Lorelei Linklater also star as Mason’s family. BOYHOOD has been a firm favourite this year with critics and audiences – perhaps helped by its smart and quirky premise.
So surely he could keep on rolling the camera for another twelve years? And another?
When posed the question in a recent interview, Linklater responded in playful fashion.
“Wouldn’t it be great if Mason left college, got on a train and met this girl in Europe…”
Of course he’s talking about his 1995 romantic drama, BEFORE SUNRISE, also starring Ethan Hawke. The actor plays Jesse, an American who meets a young French woman (Julie Delpy) and spends a night wandering the streets of Paris with her.
Très chic and postmodern!
