generational legacy

His films intimately examine how family trauma, values, and secrets transmit across generations, particularly in works like 'Shoplifters' and 'Our Little Sister'.

He explores inherited psychological wounds and cultural/familial curses passed down through bloodlines in 'Hereditary' and 'Midsommar'.

Her work dissects how parental influence and childhood experiences shape identity and morality across a lifetime, as seen in 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer'.