... visual style can be seen as influential and distinctive as well as contemporary and representative. His style has absorbed and deployed the self-conscious and subjective, realist and distancing techniques of art film alongside heightened and intensified, affective and visceral narrative techniques...

... cinema provokes people to rethink the fundamental categories and binary oppositions that often structure popular and scholarly discussions of film authorship. In this way, his work is highly relevant to revisionist approaches to European cinema, the art film and auteur cinema, world cinema...