inherited trauma

His films like Hereditary and Midsommar meticulously explore how family dysfunction and ancestral curses physically and psychologically manifest across generations.

Works such as You Were Never Really Here and We Need to Talk About Kevin examine how parental trauma and emotional violence are transmitted to and through children.

His films including Like Father, Like Son and Broker tenderly investigate how patterns of loss, abandonment, and familial bonds echo across time and bloodlines.