Joachim Trier – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

SENTIMENTAL VALUE – Review by Jennifer Green

February 25, 2026March 1, 2026 Jennifer Green elle fanning, Eskil Vogt, Inga Ibsdotter Lillieas, Joachim Trier, Kasper Tuxen, Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value', Stellan Skarsgård

This complex psychological drama from Scandinavian filmmaker Joachim Trier has emerged as one the most prominent and award-winning films of the year. If you haven’t seen Sentimental Value before hearing all the hype, you may be surprised by its nuanced and unhurried take on very mature topics. It won the Grand Prix at Cannes, swept the European Film Awards, topped critics lists and is now entering the Oscars with nine nominations, including Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, International Film, Editing and acting nods for all four of its leads.

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SENTIMENTAL VALUE – Review by Susan Granger

January 13, 2026February 1, 2026 Susan Granger elle fanning, Inga Ibsdotter Lillieas, Joachim Trier, Kasper Tuxen, Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value', Stellan Skarsgård

Joachim Trier’s acclaimed Sentimental Value delves into the dysfunctional relationship of an aging, often-absent Norwegian filmmaking father and his two grown daughters. After years of treasuring his celebrated career over his family, divorcing their mother and moving to Sweden, egotistical Gustav Borg (Stellan Skarsgard) appears at his late wife’s wake and asks his stage actress daughter Nora (Renate Reinsve) to star in his upcoming film, a deeply personal, ‘comeback’ project that treks down the corridors of history and memory, shooting scenes in their Oslo family home.

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SENTIMENTAL VALUE (Cannes FF 2025) – Review by Diane Carson

May 24, 2025May 24, 2025 Diane Carson Cannes FF 2025, elle fanning, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Joachim Trier, Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value', Stellan Skarsgård

Family dynamics command, have even dominated, dramatic narratives for all history, including a prime place in cinema. A fascinating combination of psychological complexity and emotional density often confers noteworthy viewer involvement as well, a benefit from shared human experiences. Mining this rich vein, Danish-born Norwegian director 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. From avoidance both metaphorical and physical, from sparring to embracing, the trio wrestles with the past in an unsettled present

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THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD – Review by Diane Carson

February 14, 2022February 17, 2022 Diane Carson Anders Danielsen Lie, Joachim Trier, norwegian films, Renate Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World

Joachim Trier’s new film has the intriguing, tantalizing title of The Worst Person in the World. Surprisingly, that person is not a psychopath or an abusive victimizer but Julie, almost thirty years old, struggling erratically to find her way in today’s Oslo, trying out sequential career paths while with boyfriend Aksel who creates the underground comic called Bobcat.

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THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD – Review by Susan Granger

February 9, 2022February 12, 2022 Susan Granger Anders Danielsen Lie, Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier, Kasper Tuxen, norwegian films, Oscars 2022, Renate Reinsve

This turgid romantic melodrama from Norway became one of the top contenders for Best International Feature of 2021 – after Vanity Fair and The Atlantic declared it the Best Movie of the Year. To say capricious twentysomething Julie (Renate Reinsve) is confused is an understatement. Divided into 12 tedious chapters, plus a prologue and epilogue, her story begins as she’s impetuously quitting medical school because she finds it too much like carpentry.