TIFF 2025: ‘Sentimental Value’ is a Beautiful and Somber Tale of the Limits of Regret

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It was surreal to count “meta” among the defining features of Joachim Trier’s latest outing, but perhaps more apt than expected for a creator whose characters often seem like his own audience. This time, merging a story about shattered families and defining legacies with that of filmmaking and complicated auteurs, Trier is even more direct in looking through both ends of his lens.

He’s reteamed with The Worst Person in the World ’s, Renate Reinsve, who this time plays a successful and sometimes difficult stage actress dancing as far away from the large shadow of her film director father (Stellan Skarsgård as Gustav Borg). The estranged family is forced to share space afte

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