disappearances

His masterpiece *L'Avventura* centers on a woman's unexplained disappearance and explores the psychological void left behind in modernist society.

Films like *Gone Girl* and *Zodiac* obsessively dissect disappearances and missing persons, examining obsession and the mysteries that consume those left behind.

Her work, particularly *The Rider* and *Nomadland*, explores the disappearance of individuals into landscapes and the erasure of people from society's margins.