On behalf of IFC Films and local distributor Universal Pictures International and with the generous participation of Reading Courtenay Place VES Members are invited to a special screening of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood.

This event has been organised by the distributors and requires an RSVP direct to them in order to secure access/a seat.

RSVPS ARE NOT AVAILABLE THROUGH VES

time + date: 10am Sunday 5 October

venue: Cinema 3, Reading Courtenay Place Cinemas

Please rsvp to: mailto:victoria@bluecatpictures.com.au

Boyhood – a fictional drama made with the same group of actors over a 12 year period from 2002-2013 – takes a one of a kind trip, at once epic and intimate, through the exhilaration of childhood, the seismic shifts of a modern family and the very passage of time.
The film tracks 6 year-old Mason (Ellar Coltrane) over life’s most radically fluctuating decade, through a familiar whirl of family moves, family controversies, faltering marriages, re-marriages, new schools, first loves, lost loves, good times, scary times and a constantly unfolding mix of heartbreak and wonder. But the results are unpredictable, as one moment braids into the next, entwining into a deeply personal experience of the incidents that shape us as we grow up and the ever-changing nature of our lives.
As the story begins, dreamy-eyed primary schooler Mason faces upheaval: his devoted, struggling, single mother Olivia (Patricia Arquette) has decided to move him and older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) to Houston – just as their long absent father Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke) returns from Alaska to re-enter their world. Thus begins life’s non-stop flux. Yet through a tide of parents and stepparents, girls, teachers and bosses, dangers, yearnings and creative passions, Mason emerges to head down his own road.

Written and directed by Richard Linklater and produced by Linklater, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss and Cathleen Sutherland. Cinematography by Lee Daniel and Shane F Kelly, Edited by Sandra Adair with Production Design by Rodney Becker and Gay Studebaker.