On the Before trilogy, and when midnight comes for love.
Richard Linklater's Before Midnight is preoccupied with the ways in which both the past and future seem to manifest themselves in the present.
Taken as a body of work, the Before trilogy asks us to consider the tension between its fantasy and naturalism, and the extent of our own ability to exert similar control over a lonely world that ushers us through life without concern for whether we’ve found any meaning in it.
