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Sentimental Value
Plot
In Sentimental Value, sisters Nora and Agnes Borg have just lost their mother. Nora is a stage actress in Oslo, gifted and wracked with nerves before every show. Agnes, the younger one, lives a quieter life with her husband and son.
In the middle of the grief, their father Gustav turns up. He was once a respected filmmaker, but he spent years away from the family and away from the camera. Now he wants to make a comeback, and he has a script written with Nora in mind for the lead.
Nora turns him down on the spot. Her resentment toward him is old and still raw. Gustav doesn't drop the project: he brings in Rachel Kemp, a young Hollywood star, to take the part.
Worse, the shoot will happen in the family house, the place where the sisters grew up and where a lot was left unsaid. With the crew on its way, each of them has to decide how far she wants to let her father back in.
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Awards and nominees
- Oscars 2026 · Best International Feature
Beat: It Was Just an Accident, The Secret Agent, Sirāt, The Voice of Hind Rajab - Cannes Film Festival 2025 · Grand Prix
Trivia
- It won the Grand Prix at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
- It reunites Joachim Trier with Renate Reinsve, star of The Worst Person in the World.
- Four cast members were nominated at the 2026 Oscars: Reinsve, Skarsgård, Fanning and Lilleaas.
- It won the Oscar for Best International Feature for Norway.
Cast
- Nora BorgRenate Reinsve
- Gustav BorgStellan Skarsgård
- Agnes BorgInga Ibsdotter Lilleaas
- Rachel KempElle Fanning
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