water and cleansing

His films obsessively return to water as a spiritual and cleansing force, most powerfully in Mirror and Stalker, where water represents purification and transcendence.

Water serves as both literal and metaphorical cleanser in his works like After the Storm and Shoplifters, washing away emotional debris and social shame.

Rain and water recur throughout his cinema as agents of moral and emotional renewal, particularly in Ten and The Wind Will Carry Us, symbolizing absolution and rebirth.