Captures the whole experience superbly

Rating: 10/10 (10 December 2019)

I expected this to be something like "Boyhood", though with high hopes being a big fan of the director/writer's other movies, and they were not misplaced.
I just got divorced after a very acrimonious separation that started off very mature and without hard feelings (just as in the film), and I just haven't seen anything even close to how this movie took the viewer through all those complex and mixed emotionally charged moments and shifting behaviors that nothing seems to bring out like a break-up of a marriage (either official or common law), and especially when kids are concerned (where often the parent that doesn't want to make a Solomon-like cut-the-child-in-half decision is the one who doesn't get custody (as backwards as that seems).
I don't know much about those other things other than story and dialog, but as far as my background goes, it seemed really nicely shot, lots of things I don't recall seeing before. Already I know this is going to be one of those movies I watch at least every 5 years or so ongoing probably til I die, though I don't plan on watching it again anytime soon (which is a testament to the emotional rollercoaster and how the movie opened up some of my still kind of fresh wounds so effectively).