disease and stigma

His films like 'Requiem for a Dream' and 'The Fountain' unflinchingly explore addiction, decay, and bodily deterioration as both physical disease and social stigma.

Works such as 'Dancer in the Dark' and 'Antichrist' examine mental illness, depression, and trauma while confronting society's judgment and isolation of the afflicted.

Her films including 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' explore psychological disease and the social condemnation that follows mental disturbance.