‘Sentimental Value’: Joachim Trier on the House Montage, and Why Almost Burning His Home Down ‘Percolated in the Back of My Mind When I Wrote This’

Joachim Trier knew when he was making “Sentimental Value” that it was a character study of two sisters and their father. “We did not want to make a film that felt like a chamber drama where people sit around the table and talk.”

Trier wanted the characters to move.

“Sentimental Value” is a Norwegian drama about two sisters (Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) who try to reconnect with their estranged director father (Stellan Skarsgård), as he moves to cast a rising American star (Elle Fanning) in a coming feature.

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