rural vs urban culture

His neorealist films like 'Bicycle Thieves' and 'Umberto D.' starkly contrast rural poverty with urban industrial struggle, revealing the human cost of modernization.

Films such as 'Still Walking' and 'Like Father, Like Son' explore the tension between rural family traditions and urban contemporary life with intimate nuance.

His socially conscious films like 'Kes' and 'I, Daniel Blake' examine rural working-class culture against urban economic systems and social inequality.