Sentimental Value. 2025. Norway/France/Denmark/Germany. Directed by Joachim Trier. Screenplay by Trier, Eskil Vogt. With Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning. DCP courtesy NEON. In Norwegian, English; English subtitles. 134 min.
If Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann were a director-actor match made in heaven, we are fortunate to have Joachim Trier and Renata Reinsve as their successors, partnering once again after the success of their 2021 Norwegian comedy-drama The Worst Person in the World. The joys of collaboration are perhaps less evident between the film’s protagonists, the filmmaker Gustav (Stellan Skarsgaard) and his actress daughter Nora (Reinsve). Recently widowed, Gustav is reunited with Nora in the most melancholy of circumstances, a memorial at the family home where every well-loved object is a weighty reminder of the past (the Ibsenian setting is unavoidable), but that doesn’t keep either of them from venting their resentments and disappointments in each other. Time and creativity may not heal their wounds—a new film project offers Gustav the possibility of newfound relevance, and he turns to his daughter to play the lead—but the sheer joy of watching these two actors as they register the subtlest of emotions restores our faith in the transcendence of art.
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