With ‘Sentimental Value’, Joachim Trier is ready for a Golden Palm

A standing ovation of 15 minutes; Just when you think the applause in Cannes is getting shorter, harvests Sentimental Value From the Noor Joachim Trier on Wednesday night in the Theater Lumière, the third long -standing applause ever. The Norwegian actress Renate Reinsve (37) did not think it was not too bad to give himself an attitude after ten minutes, she tells the afternoon after the roof of the Marriott Hotel, hidden in a black leather design outfit and matching sunglasses. Totally movie star.

Cannes is good for Reinsve, Joachim Trier even better. Six years ago she was about to give up acting To become a carpenter.

The thirty over, only failed TV series and crumb work, such as a tiny supporting role with which she debuted in Triers in 2011; Oslo, August 31stabout the loss of an addicted punker. Unexpectedly, Trier offered her the lead role as Julie, a millennial who does not find her way in love, work and life in The sausage person in the world. The film was a sensation in Cannes in 2021, the Obscure Reinsve won the Golden Palm as the best actress and became a global arthouse star. At the time she told that she almost vomited in a trash on the way to the red carpet. « That was a joke, » she says now. « I thought the red carpet was great, I thought: I will experience that once. What I was really afraid of at the time were the reviews of your guests. »

Blind panic

They turned out to be jubilant, and so this success story was complete. Also Sentimental Valuean ensemble film, is very much appreciated by the film press. It is a film in which Reinsve Nora plays, a neurotic, depression, a depression of the Norwegian Bühne – in the opening we see how in blind panic she asks for a premiere to hurt her hard in the face, after which she, if that does not help, gets away and tears her costume if she stops her right in front of the exit. After which her friends attach her dress with Scotch Tape and Nora push the stage on, where she plays the roof tiles. They have previously chopped with this ax.

Shortly after the death of her mother, a psychotherapist, Nora’s father, star director in Rust Gustav (Stellan Skarsgard) reports with his first script in fifteen years. About his own mother and Nora’s grandmother, who hung herself after she waved goodbye on the way to school. Nora refuses Bokkig – Gustav was never there for her, she has nothing to say to him. After which Gustav at the French Film Festival of Deauville the American star Rachel Kemp (Elle Fanning), who is everything that Nora is not: blond, unsuspecting and open. With Rachel, Gustav is going to record a Netflix movie in the house in Oslo where Nora and her sister Agnes (Inga Ibdotter Lilleas) grew up. As a child, Agnes played the leading role in a holocaust drama from Gustav to which she had her own traumas.

But Agnes is reasonable, has a family and makes all those little compromises with the life that the radical Nora is unable. She probably gains more to her grandmother; It is better not to have a rope lying around in her neighborhood. And Rachel starts to dawn that she ended up in a wasp’s nest.

Playful intermezzos

For example, people turn around in a delicate, intelligent and empathic film about family, sisterhood and the art of each other’s limitations, with again a all -knowing narrative voice, playful intermezzos and nice jokes. For example, Grandpa Gustav, always enthusiastic, intuitive and egocentric, does his seven -year -old grandson Erik DVDs from the cut -up masterpieces La Pianiste and Gaspar Noé’s Irréversible Gift: « Note Monica Bellucci, she is great. » Belucci is in Irréversible Fifteen minutes raped and abused.

Cinephile insider jokes, agreement – but Sentimental Value Will find his way to the public. Trier films another script from his bosom friend Eskil Vogt. « We come from the counterculture and never thought to do such crying films, » said Trier on Thursday. « But we are getting older and more vulnerable and now also go for vulnerable characters. So we conclude that tenderness is the new punk. »

No, punk is the new punk, Joachim Trier just gets older. A director who is best ready for a golden palm with his consistent top level. You never know if the jury grants him this year, but best scenario would be the least for Sentimental Value.

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