Abbey setting

His socially conscious filmmaking often explores institutional settings and their impact on vulnerable communities, with particular attention to British landscapes and historical contexts where abbeys feature prominently.

His films frequently engaged with religious institutions and spirituality, using abbey settings and ecclesiastical spaces to explore themes of faith, mortality, and social contradiction in Italian society.

A master of spiritual cinema who used austere, contemplative spaces including monastic and abbey environments to create meditations on grace, suffering, and the human soul.