ghostwriting

His films like 'Frantic' and 'The Ninth Gate' explore identity theft, imposture, and the blurring of authorship through paranoid narratives where characters cannot trust reality or their own perceptions.

Films such as 'Gone Girl' and 'The Game' obsessively examine constructed narratives, unreliable perspectives, and how stories can be authored and manipulated to deceive audiences and characters alike.

His work interrogates performance, persona, and the gap between authentic self and constructed identity, particularly in 'The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant' where characters author false versions of themselves.