celibacy vs desire

His films obsessively interrogate the tension between spiritual asceticism and carnal longing, particularly in works like 'Teorema' and 'Salò'.

His austere visual style and psychological intensity explore religious repression and suppressed desire, most profoundly in 'Vampyr' and 'The Passion of Joan of Arc'.

His meditative cinema examines the conflict between material desire and spiritual transcendence through metaphysical narratives in films like 'Stalker' and 'Mirror'.