decadence and aestheticism

His films like 'The Leopard' and 'Death in Venice' explore the decay of aristocratic beauty and moral corruption through sumptuous visual aestheticism.

His work obsessively examines artificial beauty, theatrical excess, and the aestheticization of emotional and social decay in films like 'The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.'

His films celebrate aesthetic excess, melodramatic passion, and the beautiful tragedy of desire while exploring the decadence of desire itself in works like 'Live Flesh.'