class pretense

His surrealist films systematically expose and ridicule the absurdity of bourgeois social rituals and class hierarchies through darkly comic deconstruction.

His neorealist works unflinchingly document how working-class people navigate systems designed by and for the privileged, revealing the performative nature of class mobility.

His films examine how families across class divisions adopt false identities and maintain pretense to survive economic hardship and social judgment.