family decay

His films like Hereditary and Midsommar dissect how family trauma, secrets, and dysfunction corrode relationships across generations.

Works such as Like Father, Like Son and Shoplifters explore how families fracture through emotional distance, social pressure, and the erosion of bonds.

Films like You Were Never Really Here and The Killing of a Sacred Deer portray how parental failure and fractured family systems lead to psychological disintegration.