Denis is known for the tender father-daughter relationship depicted in her 35 Shots of Rum (a retelling of Ozu’s Late Spring), but she more recently took up the theme in Bastards, her 2013 adaptation of Faulkner’s Sanctuary that reaches a horrifying and incestuous conclusion.
In previous Denis works like 35 Shots of Rum (2008) and Bastards (2013), an anxious feeling hangs over the father-daughter relationship.