The House in 'Sentimental Value' Is a Character All Its Own

""This house's big windows were completely covered with bushes," Larsen said. "You couldn't see the street. We wanted this concept of the house being a character and the windows being the eyes of the house, looking at the characters leaving and coming; also, to be able to portray the time periods through what you saw outside the windows.""

"So Larsen suggested that they build the whole house in the studio, "for me to be able to create all these time periods and change from the '30s to the '40s to the '50s, '60s," he said, "and also then to create the time period views with virtual production in-camera vision effects, with LED screens outside the window. So we created all these in 3D environments. Then we could have different seasons, different times, diffe"

Sentimental Value won the Cannes Grand Prix and is drawing strong awards attention with performances by Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Elle Fanning. Joachim Trier co-wrote the film with Eskil Vogt and explores generational trauma within an Oslo show-business family. Production designer Jørgen Stangebye Larsen found a distinctive red gabled house near Trier's home but determined the real house limited visual storytelling. Larsen built a full-scale house in studio to recreate multiple decades and seasons, using LED screens and virtual production to make the windows act as the house's eyes and convey time shifts.

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