teenage protagonists

Her films like 'Lady Bird' and 'Barbie' intimately explore teenage coming-of-age experiences with emotional depth and authentic character development.

She crafts psychologically complex narratives centered on troubled teenagers, as seen in 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' and 'You Were Never Really Here'.

His surreal explorations of adolescence in films like 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' and 'Poor Things' examine teenage alienation and moral confusion with artistic rigor.