Classic Cinema continues this summer with the Academy award-winning Norwegian family drama, Sentimental Value.
Two close-knit sisters and the absent father who re-enters their lives explore the possibilities of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Nora, a successful stage actress, along with her sister Agnes, reunite with their estranged father Gustav Borg — a once-renowned film director planning a major comeback with a script based on his family. When Gustav offers Nora the lead role, which she promptly declines, he turns his attention to Rachel Kemp, an eager young Hollywood starlet primed for her big breakthrough. With their fraught dynamics made even more complex, Nora, Agnes and Gustav are each forced to confront their difficult pasts.
Anchored by astonishing performances across the board, Sentimental Value is a rewarding and profoundly moving experience that intimately explores sisterhood, father-daughter relationships and the evocative power of childhood memories.
Starring Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Elle Fanning.
The film premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix, and later became the first Norwegian film to win the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. It also earned nine Oscar nominations overall, received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and won Best Supporting Actor for Stellan Skarsgård, alongside multiple European Film Awards.
"A masterpiece... everything contemporary cinema ought to be." Vogue
"Sentimental Value is a perfect, transcendent film." GQ
"A subtle yet sweeping tapestry of art and family that will take your breath away." The Wrap
Norwegian director and screenwriter Joachim Trier has received international acclaim for all his five feature films, including The Worst Person in the World, which earned Renate Reinsve the Best Actress award at the Festival de Cannes, as well as a BAFTA and two Academy Award nominations. Sentimental Value marks his sixth collaboration with co-writer Eskil Vogt.
Eskil Vogt is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter whose work with Trier spans all their features. His solo films as writer and director — Blind (Sundance and Berlinale) and The Innocents (Un Certain Regard) — have received major festival awards, including a European Film Award.