gender disguise and deception

His films like 'Peau d'âne' and 'Les Demoiselles de Rochefort' use gender performance and visual masquerade as central narrative and aesthetic devices.

He repeatedly explores gender fluidity, drag, and cross-dressing as themes of identity and liberation in films like 'La mala educación' and 'Kika'.

His work interrogates gender roles and sexual identity through deliberate performance and artifice, particularly in 'Fox and His Friends' and 'In a Year of 13 Moons'.