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TEOne of the best films of 2025. Nominated for 9 Oscars.
Some films use art to protect themselves.
Sentimental Value uses it to open a wound.
Joachim Trier takes a familiar situation — a filmmaker father returning to the family he abandoned — and strips it to the bone. This isn’t really a film about filmmaking. It’s about absence. About what ambition costs when it’s chosen again and again, and how that cost quietly passes from one generation to the next.
A father who can only express love through a script.
Two daughters shaped by the same loss in opposite ways.
One builds stability. The other turns to performance, because it’s the only place where anger and grief are allowed to exist without explanation.
The film hurts because it doesn’t hurry. Trier lingers on faces. He lets silences sit. The house feels like a witness — holding memories the people inside can barely approach. When reconciliation comes, it isn’t warm or tidy. It’s hesitant. Incomplete. Real.
All four lead performances earned Oscar nominations — not for showy moments, but because the weight is shared, carried quietly from scene to scene.
Art doesn’t fix the past here.
It just finally tells the truth about it.
🎬 Sentimental Value (2025) by Joachim Trier | IMDb 7.8
🏆 Cannes Grand Prix winner
💧 Best for: generational trauma, estranged families, forgiveness, unresolved grief, depression, sisterhood, the cost of ambition
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