Boyhood (Linklater, 2014)
Like a Wes Anderson film, but without all the twee.
Like a Wes Anderson film, but without all the twee.
The fatalism imbuing the characters and the film is certainly representative of what many couples feel in middle-age, a period in which there are as many or more choices behind them as awaiting them and where the quality of a relationship is influenced as much by the fruit of past decisions as the pleasurable contemplation of future ones.