NEW YORK — Joachim Trier, Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve have gathered in a backstage room at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. A screen on the wall shows the crowd inside, raptly watching their film, “Sentimental Value.” They have all consciously sat facing away from the movie.

But if there’s one moment from the film they sometimes sneak in for, it’s the final scene. At festivals, they’ve sometimes taken the stage for a Q&A with tears still in their eyes.

“The ending always moves me,” Skarsgård says. “On the paper, it really scared me. It could have been sentimental hell, not ‘Sentimental Value.’ What was important to me was that nothing was resolved. I hate the word closure. There’s no closure in life. But there’s something more beautiful.”

“Sentimental Value,” written and dire

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