male midlife crisis

His films like 'The Graduate' and 'Carnal Knowledge' dissect masculine anxiety and the disillusionment of American manhood across decades.

Works such as 'Last Tango in Paris' and 'The Conformist' explore male desire, identity crisis, and the collision between youthful passion and middle-aged despair.

Films like 'Before Midnight' and 'Boyhood' intimately chronicle masculine maturation and the regrets, compromises, and emotional reckoning of aging men.