Using the same
actors over that time span allows for an authenticity of experience in a narrative feature not seen before, the effect of which is to invest even the smallest, most mundane of moments with a profound, revelatory, nature.
Not exact matches
The experimental film
spans the emotional journey of a family
over the course of 12 years with all the
actors virtually aging in «real
time» on - screen as the film chronicles the family.
Filmed
over the
span of a dozen years, as its lead
actor aged from 6 to 18 and his co-stars went through similar 12 - year odysseys, writer - director Richard Linklater's «Boyhood» is ambitious, engaging fiction that aims to convey
time's mysterious effects on character.