Sentimental Value

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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. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father -- and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.

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Deftly exploring the uneasy tension between artistic expression and personal connection, Sentimental Value is a bracingly mature work from writer-director Joachim Trier that's marvelously acted across the board.

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Coleman Spilde

Salon.com

Trier’s film overflows with the kind of genuinely impactful potential that we go to the movies for, the type that leaves us feeling understood more than it makes us feel good.

Nov 26, 2025

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Monica Hesse

Washington Post

The world feels, instead, lived-in and deeply human: an emotional palette that will seem familiar to fans of Trier and Reinsve's previous collaboration.

Rated: 3.5/4

Nov 20, 2025

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Max Weiss

New York Magazine/Vulture

Trier, who has two young daughters himself, directs the whole affair with beauty and pathos and wit. His deeply humane film is an object lesson: You don’t need to be monomaniacal to make great art.

Rated: 4/4

Nov 20, 2025

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Diane Carson

AWFJ.org

Joachim Trier's "Sentimental Value" adds a poignant chapter through the deeply problematic relationship of sisters Nora and Agnes with their formerly absent father Gustav, an aging film director, as the trio wrestles with the past in an unsettled present.

Nov 29, 2025

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

(Trier's) considerations of fractured relationships, past family trauma, and art as a means of healing have significant weight and are delivered with such an assured sense of purpose that we can’t help but be captivated by the drama that unfolds.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 28, 2025

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Dustin Chase

Galveston Daily News

Sentimental Value functions like a Rubik’s cube of emotion until everything lines up and wallops the audience in the end.

Rated: A

Nov 28, 2025

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Preston

Wonderfully shot film with several excellent performances. One of the year’s best!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/29/25

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Rares B

Superb movie, so nicely emotionally layered.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/29/25

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Damien S

Great acting from Stellan Skarsgard.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/27/25

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Marlyn

Forgot Swedish movies are slow and boring I didn’t know subtitles

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/27/25

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jesse v

The cinematography and actors performances and sound design were fantastic. Though the story fights between the significance of a house, world war 2, loneliness against an old father wanting to make a movie. Also Elle Flemming is here to ground this movie in current day for some bizarre reason

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

11/26/25

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Natan

excellent movie, great performances from the main characters, great story

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/26/25

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Synopsis

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. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father -- and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.

Director: Joachim Trier
Producer: Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
Screenwriter: Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
Distributor: NEON
Production Co: Mer Film
Rating: R (Some Language|Brief Nudity|A Sexual Reference)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Norwegian
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 7, 2025, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.5M
Runtime: 2h 13m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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