"Joachim Trier isn't 100 percent comfortable with the fact that his Oscar contender, " Sentimental Value," is being labeled a melodrama. But then again, he was never comfortable with the idea of ever making a film that could be interpreted as one. On the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast, the self-described "counterculture punk" said his decision to tackle the emotional family story was his most difficult."
""I'm out on a limb with this one," said Trier. "I've done this the best I can, [to] go to very gentle, tender places of love and connection and disconnection, to try to get in the intimacy of these relationships for real, and I've been really anxious throughout the whole process, asking 'Is it too much?'" The celebrated Norwegian filmmaker's sixth film digs into an area most people reserve for therapy: The unspoken space in parent-child relationships,"
Joachim Trier felt uneasy about his film being labeled a melodrama and was anxious while shaping its emotional core. The film probes unreconciled paternal trauma embodied by celebrated director Gustav Borg (Stellan Skarsgård) and traces how those wounds are carried by his estranged daughters, particularly actress Nora (Renate Reinsve). Trier fashioned the screenplay as his first polyphonic story, balancing multiple perspectives to forge a single emotional arc. The production sought gentle, tender depictions of love, connection, and disconnection to capture intimacy authentically. The film culminates in an extended silent scene that conveys a profound, wordless moment of understanding between father and daughter.
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