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Director Joachim Trier finds plenty to embrace in ‘Sentimental Value’
Joachim Trier’s film explores generational trauma and family reconciliation through a script and filmmaking project set in a family home, winning Cannes' Grand Prix.
- This year, Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value won the Grand Prix at Cannes and opens in cinemas from 26 December, co-written with Eskil Vogt.
- Gustav, a celebrated director, returns to the Oslo family home after his wife's funeral and announces a script about the family, proposing to shoot it there despite estrangement from daughters Nora and Agnes.
- The production recruits Rachel Kemp with Netflix backing, featuring voiceover by 91-year-old Bente Børsum; Agnes finds the script deeply understanding while Nora struggles with stage fright.
- By staging their story on film, Gustav achieves reconciliation and recuperates some of the loss his career inflicted while the process lets the family confront generational trauma and regain closeness.
- Trier's filmmaking uses framing, facial expression and sound design to pursue an ambition approaching the scope of a great novel in Oslo's prosperous setting.
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Sentimental Value is an extraordinary investigation into generational trauma
Films about the travails of making films and novels about the toils of being a novelist have to be very good to seem worthwhile to those not in the business. Mia Hansen-Løve’s self-reflexive Bergman Island just about passed the test, but still left me feeling it would be good if creatives could leave off creating about being creatives. Any outline of the plot of Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier’s follow-up to The Worst Person in the World (2021)…
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