"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 abandoned any parental role when he left the marriage long ago. A filmmaker of some past acclaim, he's now 70, and hasn't completed anything in fifteen years."
"Trier and Vogt think in novelistic terms, their complicated yet never over-schematic narratives always serving to reveal character. Every major figure here-including the Hollywood import-feels fully realized, the writing so good we neither need or want the showoff acting moments another director might view as such a story's raison d'etre. While refusing to bluntly spell out its ideas, Value (which opened in theaters last weekend) astutely illustrates truths about depression, heredity's role in mental health, different approaches to the artistic life, and filmmaking itself."
Sentimental Value follows Nora, a successful Oslo actress who struggles with paralyzing stage fright, and her younger sister Agnes, who leads a more settled family life. The sisters reunite after their long-divorced therapist mother dies and a semi-estranged filmmaker father, Gustav, returns with a project he hopes will star Nora. Nora initially declines and then becomes more upset when Gustav attracts an American movie star who wants the role. The film examines depression, hereditary influences on mental health, differing artistic approaches, and filmmaking through nuanced, character-focused storytelling.
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