Sentimental Value (IFFBoston Fall Focus)
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Sentimental Value (2025)
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Runtime: 2hr14m
In English and Norwegian w/English subtitles
Directed By: Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World)
Cast: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, and Elle Fanning
Winner of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix, 2025 Toronto International Film Festival International People’s Choice Award, and Norway’s entry for Best International Film for the Academy Awards.
90/100 Metacritic and 95% Fresh
DESCRIPTION: 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.
Ty Burr: “every unspoken emotion in it feels strong and true, and the film’s portrait of two sisters loving each other through a lifelong matrix of competition and collusion is so artlessly dead on that this father of two grown daughters found himself silently weeping in the dark of a morning movie theater”
David Ehrlich, IndieWire: “a layered masterpiece that “The Worst Person in the World” director Joachim Trier has been working toward for his entire career”
[Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sentimental-value-renate-reinsve-stellan-skarsgard-tiff-film-review-2025): “It’s a movie that sneaks up on you like great fiction, blending theme and character in a way that allows it to live in your mind after you see it, rolling around what it means to both the people in it and your own life.”
Please only RSVP if you have purchased your ticket and you’ll be joining us for the post-show discussion at Alden and Harlow.