outdoor setting

His films are defined by transcendent outdoor cinematography that treats nature as a spiritual character, from The New World to A Hidden Life.

His neorealist masterpieces like Bicycle Thieves and Umberto D. unfold in the streets and public spaces of Rome, making the urban outdoor setting integral to human struggle.

His bleak, poetic films like Sátántangó and Tuva uses expansive outdoor landscapes and weather as oppressive, meditative backdrops to existential human drama.