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.
As film is primarily a visual artform, a film series presents us with the most in-depth way to view and examine the aging process in art.
On the Before trilogy, and when midnight comes for love.