intergenerational pain

His films like 'Shoplifters' and 'Nobody Knows' explore how trauma and poverty ripple through families across generations with profound emotional intimacy.

Works such as 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' depict how violence and psychological wounds transmit from parents to children through fractured narratives.

'Hereditary' and 'Midsommar' viscerally examine how family curses, grief, and inherited trauma manifest through ritualistic horror and psychological breakdown.