intergenerational pain

His films like 'Shoplifters' and 'Nobody Knows' intimately explore how trauma and hardship pass through families across generations, revealing unspoken pain beneath domestic surfaces.

Works such as 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' delve into cycles of violence, mental anguish, and how parental and ancestral wounds manifest in children.

Films like 'Hereditary' and 'Midsommar' examine how family trauma, grief, and inherited psychological damage cascade through bloodlines with visceral, haunting intensity.