Sentimental Value
Opens November 13, 2025
Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve lead an incomparable cast in Joachim Trier’s moving drama about a director’s bid to revive his career and repair his family’s broken bonds.
Tickets on sale November 4.
The winner of the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes festival, Sentimental Value portrays the myriad repercussions of a once-great filmmaker’s effort to recapture his past glory. A man who’s always prioritized his work, Gustav Borg (Stellan Skarsgård) is long estranged from his daughters Nora (Renate Reinsve), a gifted stage actress, and the more grounded Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), now immersed in family life years after performing in one of her father’s most revered movies. He finds a surprising source of support after a Hollywood star, Rachel Kemp (Elle Fanning) discovers his films at a festival retrospective. As preparation for Gustav’s new movie begins with Rachel in the role that Nora had rejected, the uniquely personal nature of his script — based on a tragedy that took place in the house that remains central to the Borgs’ lives — draws the family members together again in ways they could not predict. With its extraordinary performances and wealth of insight as the story of a family struggling and confronting the price of living for one’s art, Trier’s screenplay with long-time collaborator Eskil Vogt brings the best out of the formidable duo of Skarsgård and Reinsve, while also elicitint comparably exquisite turns by Fanning and Lilleaas.
- Director: Joachim Trier
- Principal Cast: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard, Elle Fanning, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas
- Country: Norway
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 135 min.
- Producer: Maria Ekerhovd, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
- Screenplay: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt
- Cinematographers: Kasper Tuxen Andersen
- Editors: Olivier Bugge Coutté
- Music: Hania Rani
- Awards: Cannes 2025 (Grand Prix)
- Filmography: The Worst Person In the World (2021), Oslo, August 31st (2011), Reprise (2006)
- Language: English, Norwegian, Swedish
- Has Subtitles: Yes
- US Distributor: NEON
- International Sales: mk2