coming-of-age tragedy

His films like 'Elephant' and 'Last Days' explore adolescent alienation and tragedy with unflinching vulnerability and poetic realism.

Works such as 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' and 'You Were Never Really Here' examine the psychological darkness lurking beneath youth and innocence.

His films like 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' dissect the collision between childhood and moral consequence with surreal, haunting precision.