obsession with the past

His films obsessively excavate buried truths and past crimes, with protagonists consumed by uncovering what happened before, as seen in Zodiac and Gone Girl.

He constructs narratives where characters are psychologically trapped by family trauma and historical pain, unable to escape the gravitational pull of their pasts in Hereditary and Midsommar.

His meditative, lengthy films explore memory, nostalgia, and the human compulsion to preserve and revisit the past through philosophical inquiry and visual poetry.