His films explore existential themes and the haunting of the past through landscapes and memory, particularly in works dealing with historical trauma and spiritual unrest.
Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union/RussiaHis metaphysical cinema confronts mortality, memory, and the desecration of spiritual and natural spaces through meditative visual language and philosophical inquiry.
Pedro Almodóvar SpainHis films frequently explore transgression, violation of the sacred, and the disturbance of established order through melodrama and dark comedy.