seaside setting

His films like 'Death in Venice' and 'The Stranger' use the seaside as a profound setting for exploring desire, decay, and human complexity against the Mediterranean landscape.

Her works including 'Vagabond' and 'Beaches of Agnès' intimately capture coastal French settings as spaces of freedom, introspection, and social observation.

Films like 'After the Storm' and 'The Boy and the Heron' employ seaside and waterside environments to explore family bonds, memory, and the passage of time with emotional subtlety.