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The Hindu
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
‘Sentimental Value' trailer: Joachim Trier's Cannes winner begins Oscar run
Neon has released the first trailer for Sentimental Value, the latest film from Norwegian director Joachim Trier. The project, which premiered at this year's Cannes Film Festival to strong acclaim, is set for a limited theatrical release on November 7, with plans to expand nationwide around Thanksgiving. Sentimental Value reunites Trier with Renate Reinsve, the star of his 2021 film The Worst Person in the World. Reinsve plays Nora, an actress estranged from her father, renowned film director Gustav Borg (Stellan Skarsgard). When Gustav decides to shoot his next film in the family's old home, he invites Nora to take the lead role. She declines, citing their strained relationship. The part instead goes to American actress Rachel Kemp, portrayed by Elle Fanning. The film also features Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas as Nora's sister Agnes, Cory Michael Smith, and Anders Danielsen Lie. At its Cannes premiere, Sentimental Value received a 15-minute standing ovation and went on to win the festival's Grand Prix. Trier, visibly moved during the screening, reflected on the long development process. 'We struggled for years to make this,' he told the crowd. 'I make films for my friends… I feel you're all my friends tonight.' Neon has confirmed plans to campaign the film during the upcoming awards season. Trier's previous film, The Worst Person in the World, also debuted at Cannes and earned two Academy Award nominations for Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay. With strong critical support and a timely release strategy, Sentimental Value is expected to be a contender this Oscar season.
Tom's Guide
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Tom's Guide
I'm telling everyone to stream this millennial masterpiece for free on Tubi — and it's 96% on Rotten Tomatoes
Many coming-of-age movies rightfully center on those usually awkward, sometimes painfully relatable transitions between adolescence and adulthood. But some of the genre's best big-screen examples extend that growing-pains period to a character's 20s and 30s, showing that becoming who you will be doesn't come easy, no matter your age. "The Worst Person in the World", a 2021 Norwegian stunner by director-writer Joachim Trier that centers on a 30-year-old woman struggling to find her direction in life, falls beautifully in the latter camp — and it's now available to stream for free on Tubi. The acclaimed modern-day dramedy is just one title among the streaming service's ever-changing lineup, which, thanks to ad support, boasts 20,000 free TV shows and movies from studios including Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate and networks including A&E, Lifetime and Starz. Those few commercial breaks mean that, unlike other platforms like Netflix, Tubi doesn't need to charge you for your next movie marathon. And speaking of movie marathons, here's why "The Worst Person in the World" should be added to your next watch list ASAP. The third installment of Joachim Trier's "Oslo" trilogy — which also includes 2006's "Reprise" and 2011's "Oslo, August 31st" — "The Worst Person in the World" sees Renate Reinsve in a Cannes Best Actress Award-winning turn as Julie, a medical student on the brink of 30 who's navigating both professional changes (her career path transitions from medicine to psychology and later photography) and personal switch-ups. Julie has been in a relationship with Aksel Willman (played by Anders Danielsen Lie, the only actor to appear in all three of Trier's "Oslo" dramas), a comic artist 15 years her senior. However, an unexpected encounter with an intriguing barista named Eivind (Herbert Nordrum) at a wedding reception makes her unsure about her future with Aksel. Told across four years of Julie's life — in a novelistic format of "chapters", with both a prologue and epilogue — "The Worst Person in the World" follows the young woman as she battles indecision both in her heart and her career, often to humorous and heart-shattering effect. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. With its sexy meet-cutes and 'shroom-laced fantasies, "The Worst Person in the World" does include many of the exciting bits of self-discovery that tend to occur in your late-20s and early-30s, but it's "a romantic comedy that delightfully subverts the genre's well-worn tropes," according to the critical consensus over on Rotten Tomatoes (where the film boasts an excellent 96% approval rating). Indeed, the award-winning drama — which earned Oscar nominations for Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay for Trier and co-writer Eskil Vogt — has become thought of as a millennial masterpiece precisely because it allows a good deal of wistfulness and woe to permeate Julie's journey to happily-ever-after. Rather, Reinsve's heroine feels resonantly stuck and dissatisfied at every turn, a generational moodiness that's handled hilariously but also movingly throughout the film. ("You seem to be waiting for something. I don't know what,' Aksel tells her at one point.) Publications including Vanity Fair and The Atlantic declared "The Worst Person in the World" the best film of 2021, and we'd be hard-pressed to disagree. It's an achingly exquisite watch, at turns devastatingly funny and just plain devastating. Julie might think she deserves the harshness of the film's title, but Trier's instant-classic treats her messy struggles to find her place in the world with something that looks a lot like grace. Watch "The Worst Person in the World" on Tubi now
Pink Villa
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Sentimental Value: Grand Prix Winning Film Eyes Thanksgiving Release Amid Neon Studios Gearing Up for Award Campaign, DEETS
Sentimental Value, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix award, is headed to theaters in November. The Joachim Trier directorial will be stretched till the Thanksgiving period, and the limited release will help the movie to contend in the award season, especially the Oscars. As per the reports of Variety, Neon studios is planning a robust campaign for the film, as it received rave reviews during the Cannes premiere. Moreover, the studios rode high throughout the Cannes Film Festival. Not only did it premiere Sentimental Value, but it also acquired rights to the North American film The Secret Agent and Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident. The latter movie won the Palme d'Or. What is Sentimental Value about? As for the plot of Sentimental Value, the movie revolves around a stage actress and her sister, who reunite with their estranged father, who is a director. After one of the daughters declines their father's offer to portray a role in her father's movie, the role goes to a popular film actress. According to the official synopsis of the film uploaded on the official Cannes Film Festival website, 'Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.' The movie has one of the most talented casts, which includes Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Elle Fanning, Cory Michael Smith, and Anders Danielsen Lie. Neon's previous projects The Neon studios, apart from Sentimental Value, are also known for the well-acclaimed projects like Anora and The Worst Person in the World. While Anora swept the Academy Awards in 2025, The Worst Person in the World also made it to the Oscar nominations for the best international feature and best original screenplay. Neon also helped Parasite head to the Oscars in the previous years. Sentimental Value will hit the screens on November 7.
CairoScene
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
Review: Joachim Trier's Most Emotionally Mature Film Yet
Review: Joachim Trier's Most Emotionally Mature Film Yet 'Sentimental Value' is directed by the acclaimed Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier. Trier is best known for introspective and emotionally resonant films like Oslo, August 31st and The Worst Person in the World. The latter earned two Academy Award nominations, including Best International Feature and Best Original Screenplay. With this latest feature, Trier seems to channel the emotional precision of Ingmar Bergman. This very well might be his most mature and accomplished film to date. 'Sentimental Value' screened in the main competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival. By the time this review gets posted, the winners will have been announced. If it were up to me, this film would win the Palme d'Or. There's a sense in this film that Trier has elevated his craft as a director. His work now reflects not only technical mastery but also a deeper philosophical engagement with his characters and their inner lives. Much like Bergman in films like Scenes from a Marriage, Trier employs a narrator who verbalises the inner states of his characters with startling clarity. Emotions aren't simply identified. They're evoked through vivid metaphors that draw us deeper into the character's interior world. In the opening scene, the narrator recalls how, as a child, the protagonist was asked to choose an object and describe how it felt. She chose her house. She describes how the house hated being empty. How it went through long periods of silence. It hated that feeling. This silence, of course, was due to the absence of a family member. The way the narrator describes the house's emotional state mirrors the void left behind by a family that was on the verge of collapse. When its rooms weren't filled with footsteps or laughter, it felt empty, just like her. From that very first scene, you understand the emotional architecture of the entire family. The writing is devastating. It's a great example of how good narration with vivid descriptive imagery can be a vessel for emotional truth. Co-written with his longtime collaborator Eskil Vogt, the film explores how past wounds shape the present. It's a deeply personal drama that reveals how the stories we tell can become a way of coping and understanding the pain we inherit. The story revolves around Nora Berg (Renate Reinsve), a stage actress grappling with the recent loss of her mother. Her estranged father, Gustav Berg played by Stellan Skarsgård in a powerhouse performance, resurfaces with an unexpected offer. He wants her to play the lead in his new comeback film. The project is clearly autobiographical. Nora refuses. She can't seem to forgive her father for his past mistakes. When she turns him down, Gustav casts a rising Hollywood star, Rachel Kemp (Elle Fanning), in her place. In this role, Fanning displays an impressive range of emotions. Of course, it is not long before she realises that she's is portraying a version of Nora shaped by the director's own memories. What follows is a delicate meditation on the fragile ways art can both reopen wounds and begin to mend them. 'Sentimental Value' is a film about the redemptive power of storytelling. It explores how the act of making cinema can be a form of healing. How re-enacting the traumas of the past can offer a new way of seeing, of understanding, of letting go. In revisiting pain through performance, characters don't just relive their memories. They begin to reshape them. Trier suggests that we might not be able to escape our past. However, through the expression of art, we might just learn how to live with the pain. 'Sentimental Value' is filled with emotional honesty. It's a reminder of why we turn to cinema in the first place. It's to make sense of the world. Great films help us understand why we feel the way we do. They offer a kind of clarity that life often withholds. In doing so, films like this one help us come to terms with the people we love. Not as we wish they were, but as they truly are, flawed and deeply complex. 'Sentimental Value' will almost certainly find itself in the awards conversation by year's end. I loved everything about it.
Vogue Singapore
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue Singapore
Cannes hit Sentimental Value might be the best film you see all year
Kasper Tuxen Joachim Trier's The Worst Person in the World , the Norwegian auteur's portrait of millennial ennui starring the captivating Renate Reinsve, remains one of the best films of our present decade—a touchingly tender, incredibly funny and deeply moving coming-of-age saga which rightly earned its leading lady Cannes' Best Actress prize in 2021. That year, Spike Lee's jury chose to award the Palme d'Or to Julia Ducournau's Titane instead—fair enough—but if Trier doesn't win this time around, for Sentimental Value , his hotly-anticipated reunion with Reinsve and fellow frequent collaborator Anders Danielsen Lie, then I will really, truly, be outraged. In some ways, Sentimental Value is a spiritual sequel to Worst Person— while the latter observed dating, daddy issues and a woman's preparedness (or lack thereof) to be a parent in her turbulent late 20s and early 30s, this new release picks up very slightly later, in a more settled portion of one's third decade, in which, say, your career may have taken off but you're still no closer to building the kind of family so many of your peers now seem to have. It's poignant, poetic, frequently surprising and quietly devastating. And much like its predecessor, it left me paralysed in my seat as the credit rolled, crying tears of joy and reconsidering my whole life. It's the story of two sisters, Nora and Agnes (Reinsve opposite the enchanting Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), their estranged father, Gustav (a wonderfully prickly Stellan Skarsgård), their dearly departed mother and the entire clan which predates them, but it's also the historical account of a house: the sprawling, creaky, red-fronted, Oslo relic, with giant cracks in its foundations and secret passageways within it, which they have occupied for generations. Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in Sentimental Value. Kasper Tuxen It's a living, breathing thing which, early in the film, bears witness to their latest tragedy: the loss of a matriarch, which hollows out this home, and creates space for the swaggering Gustav to re-enter it. Nora and Agnes couldn't be more different—the former, our lead, is a celebrated actor, effervescent, flighty, reckless, chronically single and prone to bouts of acute stage fright; the latter a soft-spoken historian with a husband and young son—but they both have difficult relationships with their father. A prolific filmmaker who left them when they were kids, he only really reappeared if he wanted something—and that's still the case now. He has written a script for a new project, he tells Nora, his first in over a decade, and more personal than anything he's ever attempted before—and he'd like her to play the lead, a part that is based on her own life. She's outraged, and stresses that they could never work together, and so he reluctantly shelves the movie—until, a fateful trip to the Venice Film Festival leads to him crossing paths with Rachel (a luminous Elle Fanning), a movie star on the hunt for a new challenge. Before Nora knows it, Rachel has dyed her hair dark brown, adopted a Norwegian accent and begun rehearsals in their childhood home. What follows is a film about the process of making a movie, and also of choosing not to make one. Nora continues acting on stage, having an affair with her married colleague (Anders Danielsen Lie, in a brief but effective part, with the pair's chemistry still unmatched) and ponders her father's motivations. All the while, the 70-year-old Gustav assembles his team, reckons with the notion of his own mortality and sets about nailing his film's ending, a sequence in which his protagonist hangs herself, in the very same room where Gustav's real-life mother committed the same act when he was a child. Is this film about Nora? Is it actually about Gustav's mother? Is it, in fact, about Gustav himself? And what exactly is he trying to do in making it? What is he trying to fix? What wound is he trying to close? Rachel tells him that she doesn't understand her character's thought process—why would she do this when she, in this story, has a young son? Gustav doesn't seem to know either—but he knows it can happen, because it happened to him.
