EXCLUSIVE : Joachim Trier is seated by a big picture window that looks out over the mountain range that hugs the valley where the Telluride Film Festival is located. He’s here with a big picture of his own, Sentimental Value , which was a mammoth hit in Cannes, winning the Grand Prix .

“That was a joy,” Trier says, but he’s enjoying “the kind of calm, nice atmosphere” in the mountains and feels that’s what “the team and me needed after the whirlwind of Cannes, which was lovely, of course, but it’s so intense and so much a saturation of experience.

“And it’s beautiful and wonderful, but it’s not real,” he reflects quietly as we settle in for what turns out to be a wide-ranging conversation where, dear reader, the filmmaker shows me his legs. But you’ll have to scrawl down for t

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