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.

A story about home, inheritance, and fiction’s ability to reveal truths capable of bringing alienated individuals together, it’s a tumultuous, moving triumph which—on the heels of screening at the Cannes Film Festival (whe

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