"There are emotional strands that feel laboured it doesn't help that the snippets we hear of Gustav's script sound obvious and tired but Sentimental Value is so frequently and convincingly moving in how it zeroes in on the gaps in affection and acceptance that neglect creates within a family. If art wants to be redemptive, it needs to make honest and sincere connections between its players. It's a familiar maxim that Trier makes lively again: art is not just excavation, but rather renewal."
"The new film from Jafar Panahi is a superb thriller told with masterful economy, examining questions of what justice looks like in a country where state-sanctioned violence has become the norm. Filmed in secret by the Iranian new wave veteran, the film's drama unfolds when an Islamic republic official is delivered into the hands of his former prisoners, after the squeak of his prosthetic leg gives him away to a local car mechanic called Vahid."
Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value follows Nora, an actress on the rise who suffers a catastrophic anxiety attack seconds before stepping onstage at Oslo's National Theatre. Her father, Gustav Borg, a celebrated Swedish film director, returns after their mother's death, reopening long-standing distance and unprocessed feelings between him and his daughters. The film focuses on gaps in affection and acceptance that neglect creates and presents art as a path to honest, redemptive connection. Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident is a terse thriller filmed in secret that probes justice and identity when a prosthetic leg's squeak triggers a search for an alleged torturer.
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