marital discontent

His films like 'Scenes from a Marriage' and 'Saraband' are masterpieces of psychological exploration into marital breakdown and emotional alienation.

His raw, improvisational style in films like 'Faces' and 'A Woman Under the Influence' captures the suffocating reality of troubled marriages with unflinching intimacy.

His slow-cinema approach in 'Beyond the Hills' and '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days' reveals how institutional and social pressures corrode marital and intimate relationships.