family abandonment

His films like 'Nobody Knows' and 'Shoplifters' profoundly examine familial bonds, loss, and the makeshift families formed when biological ties fracture.

Works such as 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' and 'You Were Never Really Here' explore the psychological devastation of parental neglect and broken family structures.

'Hereditary' and 'Midsommar' use family trauma and generational abandonment as central psychological forces that haunt and destroy his characters.