social class and pretense

His surrealist masterpieces systematically deconstruct bourgeois pretense and expose the absurdity of class hierarchies through darkly comic narratives.

His films brutally examine how social class determines relationships, desire, and morality while revealing the performative nature of identity in capitalist society.

Her humanistic cinema chronicles working-class and marginalized lives with dignity while critiquing the structures of social exclusion and aesthetic pretension.