Art is both reality and fantasy, liberating and constricting, and an escape from, and confrontation of, oneself in Sentimental Value, the story of a family whose ruptures run deep and are exacerbated by attempts to cinematically address them.
Acclaimed Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier’s follow-up to 2021’s The Worst Person in the World reunites him with Renate Reinsve, whose commanding performance as a stage actress drowning in sorrow and anger is matched by the titanic turn of Stellan Skarsgård as an absentee father convinced he can mend fences through moviemaking.
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