family crisis

His films like 'Shoplifters' and 'After the Storm' intimately explore fractured family bonds, economic hardship, and the struggle to maintain familial connections across generations.

Known for unflinching examinations of family dysfunction in works like '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days' and 'Graduation,' he captures moral crises within families with devastating realism.

Films such as 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' and 'The Lobster' deconstruct family relationships and social structures through darkly surreal, psychologically turbulent narratives.