abandonment

His films explore spiritual and emotional abandonment through meditative pacing and existential isolation, as seen in *Stalker* and *Mirror*.

She examines social abandonment and economic displacement in contemporary America with intimate realism in films like *Nomadland* and *The Rider*.

His films dissect emotional abandonment and alienation within relationships and modern society, particularly in *L'Avventura* and *La Notte*.