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Sentimental Value Reviews
This is ultimately a rich, engrossing, deeply moving tale of what happens when family becomes fodder for art.
Sentimental Value is a cathartic and captivating film about family that feels unbelievably authentic and rich with emotion.
In a time when so many movies feature cartoonish storylines, Sentimental Value is a gem.
This is no dutiful greatest-hits collection of a filmmaker too comfortable in his career; "Sentimental Value" is a canny remix or a provocative mosaic; it is as if Trier is using the film to reevaluate his own work and his relationship with film.
I must concede that a 2-hour and 15-minute Norwegian film about family drama might not be the most appealing hook for many audience members. I would submit, though, that this story is rich, deep, and, well, sentimental.
What sits with me about it is the way the movie so delicately weaves its story, the way you work pastry dough through aggressive manipulation and a light touch.
Sentimental Value is a work of overwhelming maturity. Trier and his co-screenwriter, Eskil Vogt, go straight for the jugular with a searing question: How do we forgive those who have hurt us without them acknowledging their guilt? [Full Review in Spanish]
Discussions of mental health, particularly depression, are an essential part of Sentimental Value’s family’s dynamics.
This is a superb film, warm, funny as hell when it needs to be, and heartbreaking when it has earned the right. But most of all, Sentimental Value is insightful and understanding about love, family and loss.
It’s hard to define what value there is to sentimentality when the feature in question is inaccessible to a chunk of its audience, thus answering a different question on values, and how Neon views a portion of its potential audience.
The made-up problems of these successful Norwegian artistes and academics did not interest me.
a beautiful, moving work of simultaneous depth and simplicity, honing in on various tensions both large and small that define our relationships with our loved ones
With this arsenal of ingredients, Trier constructs a solid film, perhaps even too solid. [Full review in Spanish]
Complex family relationships built on years of distrust and recriminations characterize the length of Sentimental Value...
His sixth feature wrestles with devastation and hilarity as it maintains the ability to be broadly incisive and specifically crafted. It also exists as both an intimate story about family and a clever movie about filmmaking.
It’s unclear if Trier is being dirty or ironic. His casual perversity gets in the way of the film’s hokiness, play-acting the same old dysfunction that’s become a cliché in TV melodramas.
How Nora and Agnes grew up and what it was like for them in their specific household is arguably the whole point of this narrative. The opening of the film is a beautiful montage that felt like something out of Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life (2011)
I personally found it tedious, but there’s very real nutrition in Sentimental Value’s perspective.
It expands on the idea that not only those who came before live within us, but the space we’ve inhabited too. A film about sisterhood, parenthood, trauma, love and perception. An incredible piece of acting and filmmaking. [Full review in Spanish]
It is not even clear what despair is threatening Nora, or why. In any case, it is not a convincing scene. Like the World War II material, it seems thrown in quasi-arbitrarily to add gravitas to an otherwise flimsy work.