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The Sublime Sentimental Value Is the Toast of This Year’s Cannes Film Festival
Joachim Trier reunites with his The Worst Person In The World star Renate Reinsve for a filigree delicate drama about family, art, and trauma.
Gustav turns around and does something that wasn’t primarily intended as revenge, but serves those purposes astonishingly well: he meets a famous American star named Rachel Kemp (Elle Fanning) at a film festival where his work is being given a retrospective, and recruits her to be his leading lady instead. Sentimental Value — which just premiered at Cannes to possibly unprecedented acclaim, and which, like all of Trier’s fiction films, was co-written by Eskil Vogt — is about art and history and emotional openness, but it’s more than anything a playful but also wondrously frank exploration of what it actually means to be family. The Worst Person in the World, which also starred Reinsve, introduced her character with a quick-cut sequence about her discovering that her true calling isn’t medicine but psychology — only for her to then have an identical, if less convincing, revelation that what she actually was put on the earth to do is photography.
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