His films obsessively examine the psychology of seduction, betrayal, and moral corruption within intimate relationships, particularly in works like 'Le Boucher' and 'Story of Women'.

He masterfully portrays the emotional devastation of abandonment and forbidden desire, transforming romantic rejection into profound human drama in films like 'Live Flesh' and 'The Skin I Live In'.

His provocative cinema relentlessly explores seduction as manipulation and abandonment as psychological torture, most notably in 'Antichrist' and 'Nymphomaniac'.