Though I haven’t loved all their films, Norwegian director Joachim Trier and his writing collaborator Eskil Vogt remains among the hopes of the medium—an accomplished team whose work is intelligent, involving, thematically ambitious but very human in scale. Their latest Sentimental Value won the Grand Prix at Cannes, and it again largely revolves around Renate Reinsve, the star of their last effort The Worst Person in the World.

She plays Nora, a successful Oslo theater and TV actress despite occasionally paralyzing stage fright; younger sister Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) leads a more settled life with a husband and grade-school son. When their long-divorced therapist mother passes away, a surprise guest at the wake is semi-estranged father Gustav (Stellan Skarsgard), who pretty much

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