mutual resentment

His psychological dramas like 'Scenes from a Marriage' and 'Winter Light' anatomize the corrosive dynamics of resentment festering within intimate relationships.

His family films capture the quiet, accumulated resentments between generations and spouses, expressed through silence, distance, and unspoken disappointments.

His austere examinations of domestic life in films like 'Funny Games' and 'The Seventh Continent' expose how mutual resentment breeds violence and alienation within families.