Overview
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.
He saved her from another suicide attempt by allowing her to live this "suicide" not for real, but in a movie, through a script and through a role.
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Humane and touching. He raises complex topics of family, self-discovery and acceptance, and touches on the horrors of fascism. But at the same time, it does not depress, it is light and light.
Attention, spoiler alert, it's better not to open it if you haven't looked yet!
And the final was the maximum climax of emotions for me, because it took me a while to realize that it wasn't real. And the fact that it turned out to be filming was a great relief to me
Overall, I can't say that I'm thrilled with this movie, but I don't want to watch it one bit.
cinema is slowly developing, it is sad at the same time, but still warm and humane. The theme of family values reveals itself in a special way and gives you something to think about.
In the end, they made me cry. Skarsgard's award is well deserved. Bravo
And grandpa knows what the best gift for a granddaughter is for a decade. It's good that no one is watching the DVD right now.
Ps. Oscar to the rising star Stellan Skarsgard.
It was shot perfectly.
Well, what kind of feeling it leaves behind at the end ...
I immediately wanted to reconsider..
There aren't many films that I want to watch right now (it seems to me), but this is an incredible exception. It's even more gratifying that I've been awarded multiple nominations, and they'll take something away at the Oscars.
Pretentious sleeping pills
The director is clearly haunted by the laurels of the brilliant Ingmar Bergman (first of all, of course, Fanny and Alexander, Strawberry Meadow and Scenes from married life)
How tired of these immeasurable sufferings of rich people in big houses, who endlessly rush with their insignificant childhood
And vile, selfish old men who suddenly decided that they had the right to a younger life just because they had been trampled somewhere nearby.
Sentimental is the right word, it conveys the whole false essence of what is happening.
The acting (with the exception of the incompetent Fanning doll) is not bad, but it doesn't save the movie.
Admittedly, people dress so beautifully here, such aesthetic European grooming, while almost no one in the frame abuses cosmetics, an elegant secular urban style uniform, I would even buy something for myself, it's interesting to watch how colors appear in the picture with music and camera as separate characters, but there is also a powerful acting the class gathered, from masters of their craft to high-class Scandinavian-European-American artists of various genres, who together concentrated their efforts to produce lamp-like and difficult films about women's feelings, about men's, about universal, about a global trend that it would be desirable to overcome with solidarity, tolerance and altruism, with all these simple sentimental values in knowing that there are holocausts, suicides and acts of betrayal and betrayal in the world, but still being and wanting to become the best version of yourself, not finding ideals in others, and not finding fault with flaws and past sins too much, maybe the recipe for happiness is somewhere nearby, I haven't caught it for myself yet. but I know for sure that watching movies is a real satisfaction of the needs of my sentimental soul.
The trier in a masterful frame with sublimation demonstrates their sentimental trait, it is valuable to spend days with loved ones, to live life.
In short, it was an interesting experience, I think it's worth watching at least to form your own opinion about the film. Maybe you'll even like it.
Almost everything is annoying, literally - the dull picture, the muted tone of the narration (even making fun of himself - according to the plot, the “screaming” American woman should not be taken into the “trashy artukha” - a la the screenwriter covering up the blunders, asking a question about inconsistencies on behalf of his Persian), the “good” ending, which has moved away from the complex suicide themes through an authentic (no kidding) game on this topic. But for me, it's so close-minded-AVN's “Leap of faith”, whose creator's daughter voluntarily passed away, and that reveals a more subtle topic. There is nothing to say about cinema (the same elevator to the scaffold of Louis Mahl).
of course, the fascist wounds of the Norwegians are also read at a basic level (it's even funny how Skarsgard plays a maniac in Fincher's "girl", in the film it's literally about the fact that all Swedes are fascists, and here his hero is the child of a woman from the Norwegian resistance). There is also a certain "for all that is good" in this, some kind of amorphous, universal "miasma of Nazi evil spreads through the generations, affecting every family," smoothly flowing into family dynamics - destructive, again, trying to talk about the family as humanly and quietly, but also toothlessly, sluggishly. The fact that the actors work superbly and reliably cope with the task does not help the picture - as if this only reinforces its banality. He left an unpleasant aftertaste, in short, despite the fact that there was nothing to scold him for.…
The famous director Gustav Borg arrives at the funeral of his wife, whom he abandoned many years ago with the children. He is trying to establish a relationship with his grown-up daughters, Nora and Agnes. For the eldest, who became a theater and television actress, he even wrote a film script that was supposed to launch her career into the stratosphere... And to return Gustav himself to Olympus - he has not pleased his fans with his work for 15 years. However, Nora is not eager to participate in his latest project, Agnes is trying less and less to justify her father, and Gustav is moving further and further away from his goal with each successive unsuccessful decision.
It's a very good movie, which is pleasant to watch from the beginning to the end. About human pain, which can be passed down from generation to generation as a physical legacy, but without wringing your hands and puffing out your cheeks (hello, "Hamnet"). The main thing that I would like to note in "Sentimental Value" is simply the outstanding acting work of the four main participants in the events. Naturally, we are talking about Stellan Skarsgard, Renate Reinswe and Inge Ibsdotter Lilleos, who played members of the Borg family, as well as Elle Fanning, who suddenly got into the story as American starlet Rachel Kemp, who by all means wants to work with a European mastodon. It's an absolute pleasure to watch them - it's expensive to watch how, say, Skarsgard can show with one eyebrow movement that all his good beginnings are going down the drain and an alternative solution to the problem turns out to be a disaster, or a quick smile from Reince in a crucial scene followed by a short exchange of glances with his "father" in the style of "everyone understood everything."". And Fanning, who should be a reluctant antagonist at first glance, arouses sympathy, and you sincerely root for Rachel - if only everything would work out for her, and everything would work out for the father and daughter without the help of the film. Which, of course, is impossible.
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"What do you mean?"
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However, director Joachim Trier has a famous name for a reason. In the spirit of his distant relative - they seem to have little contact with Lars - Trier cannot tell an exceptionally touching story, it is necessary to speak out about the state of modern cinema, and indeed art, including theater. The whole theme of Gustav's encounter with the harsh reality of aging professionals in their field, the dominance of television soaps and streaming services dictating their terms (which, however, is very convenient under certain circumstances), is both topical and provokes a knowing grin.
One of the most "even" and high-quality Oscar contenders among those who are not a blockbuster for the broadest masses (such as "Sinners" and "Formula 1"), but at the same time not outright despondency for everyone, a la "Hamnet". That's why "Sentimental Value" won't get the best film.
It's Scandinavian-style, without unnecessary scenes, but it has a strong enough emotional charge with the filigree acting of the movie.
RATING: 4.5 IKEA stools out of 5
I really like the movie "The Worst Man on Earth" by the same director - the similar atmosphere, the way the shots are arranged is just a delight! And the director, apparently, likes to work with the same actors.