loss and attachment

His films like 'Shoplifters' and 'After the Storm' intimately explore familial bonds, loss, and how people cling to relationships despite inevitable separation.

Works such as 'You Were Never Really Here' and 'A Ghost Story' probe trauma, grief, and the impossibility of letting go of what haunts us.

His meditative films like 'The Assassin' and 'Café Lumière' examine memory, displacement, and the bittersweet weight of emotional attachments across time.