Why watch?

Renate Reinsve plays a woman who runs into her ex-partner at a funeral after years apart, and the whole film is about untangling what they actually were to each other. Joachim Trier lets it breathe — no big dramatic moments, just the small gestures and the things people feel but don't say. Stellan Skarsgård as her father steals entire scenes with barely any dialogue. It's not a film that hits you over the head; it's one that stays with you.

Who is it for?

This is for adult viewers who appreciate slow family dramas — watch it in the evening when you have time to sit with it, because it's not background material. If you liked The Father or Manchester by the Sea, same kind of melancholy storytelling. Plenty of intimate scenes, adult language, and heavy emotions, but no violence — just know it gets sad.

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Sentimental Value

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2025 · 2h 13min7.5R
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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.

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When their mother dies, sisters Nora and Agnes suddenly have to reckon with their father Gustav again—a once-celebrated film director who's been on the margins of their lives. Gustav has written a new script with Nora in mind, but she refuses the role, so he casts a young Hollywood star instead, someone who actually wants to work with him. Stellan Skarsgård plays Gustav as a man trying to outrun his past while Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas are his daughters, caught between resentment and the possibility of something new. Director Joachim Trier builds this like a slow-burn family reckoning where the act of making a film becomes the stage for actual healing—or at least the attempt. This lands in the same territory as Godard or late-career Bergman, if you've seen those—intimate, philosophical, real.

Why watch?

Renate Reinsve plays a woman who runs into her ex-partner at a funeral after years apart, and the whole film is about untangling what they actually were to each other. Joachim Trie…

Who is it for?

This is for adult viewers who appreciate slow family dramas — watch it in the evening when you have time to sit with it, because it's not background material. If you liked The Fath…

Similar titles

If what grabbed you was Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård circling around the past and regret in that slow, confined way—talking in a family house with nowhere to hide—then Wint…

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