Tracing the thread…
His surreal, darkly comic films such as 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' and 'Poor Things' center on characters operating outside social norms with bizarre behaviors and twisted logic.
Joaquim Dos Santos United StatesThrough films like 'Elephant' and 'My Own Private Idaho,' he creates intimate, empathetic portraits of alienated youth and social outcasts caught between conformity and authenticity.