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Review 778: Sentimental Value

An intimate, emotional and moving experience, Sentimental Value underscores its subject matter with sensitivity and  Nora Borg (Renate Reinsve), a successful stage actress, reunites with her estranged father Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), a once renowned film director who is planning a comeback with a script based on his family. When Gustav offers Nora the lead role, which she promptly declines, he turns his attention to a rising Hollywood starlet, Rachel Kemp (Elle Fanning), instead  The latest effort from Joachim Trier, who previously made the wonderful The Worst Person in the World  Not only is it a poignant and  meditation on grief, it's a film about the complexities of family dynamics, intergenerational trauma, Nepotism and the power of art.  the score by Hania Rani is beautiful  The house that Nora and Agnes grew up in is very much a character in of itself.  Stellan Skarsgård fresh off of Dune and the Star Wars show Andor  in the role of a comp...

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