In “sentimental value”, Joachim Trier films family injuries that do not heal

The opinion of the “world” – not to be missed

An image crosses Sentimental valuethe sixth fictional feature by Joachim Trier. For example, the Grand Prix of the last Cannes Film Festival: “sentimental value”, joachim trier films that of a face scrutinized by the camera where a tear that would not flow appears. Nevertheless, Pain well present behind the surface, but retained. Meanwhile, This sorrow which comes from afar seems to link Gustav Borg (Stellan Skarsgard). Moreover, a renowned filmmaker who has not shot for fifteen years, and his two daughters with whom he has relations as distant as complex, Nora (Renate Reinsve), the elder, and Agnès (Insga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), the youngest. He accompanies the spectator throughout this family story with a strong emotional charge. In a dreamlike sequence. which occurs three -quarters of the film, the faces of the three characters merge, on a black background, in a disturbing play of almost monstrous combinations from which these slightly damp eyes always stand out under the light.

In a more prosaic way. the trio also has as a legacy, in Oslo, an old house which “sentimental value”, joachim trier films belongs to the family of Gustav and in which Sissel lived, his ex-wife, whose death marks the beginning of history. It is in this large building of a dark wood with red lines. embellished with a garden, that Nora and Agnes grew up. They saw their parents arguing there. then separate, they secretly spied on the sessions of their mother psychologist and played to hit the grand staircase. It was there. long before, that the great-great-grandfather of Nora and Agnes died, that their grandmother was born and then died in painful circumstances.

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