coastal setting

His films like 'Death in Venice' and 'The Leopard' use coastal and seaside locations as metaphorical spaces where decadence, class struggle, and human desire converge with the sea's timeless beauty.

She repeatedly returned to French coastal towns in films like 'Vagabond' and 'Jacquot de Nantes,' using beaches and seaside settings to explore human solitude, memory, and the relationship between people and landscape.

Though known for bleakness, his use of coastal and water-adjacent settings in films like 'Sátántangó' creates haunting meditations on isolation, time, and human desperation against vast, indifferent natural environments.