His films obsessively dissect the psychosexual dynamics of power, desire, and emotional manipulation within relationships, particularly exploring how characters suppress and sublimate their yearnings.

He penetrates the psychological depths of intimate human connections to expose the unspoken desires, guilt, and emotional withdrawal that characters conceal beneath social propriety and marriage.

His surrealist approach deconstructs bourgeois morality to reveal the dark, irrational sexual and violent impulses that society forces people to repress and deny.