childhood anxiety

Her films like 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' and 'You Were Never Really Here' viscerally depict psychological disturbance and trauma through fractured narratives that mirror anxious mental states.

His deadpan, unsettling films such as 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' and 'The Favourite' explore power dynamics, social alienation, and the psychological unease beneath mundane or aristocratic settings.

His horror films 'Hereditary' and 'Midsommar' root their terror in familial dysfunction, grief, and the vulnerability of characters caught in inescapable, anxiety-inducing situations.