‘Sentimental Value’: How Joachim Trier Followed on ‘The Worst Person in the World’

Sentimental Value opens with a narrator recalling an essay that Nora Berg (Renate Reinsve), a stage and TV actress in her mid-30s, wrote when she was 12. She imagined herself as the family home, a modest stunner in Oslo that’s passed through generations, and which acts as the film’s grand setting. She wonders how it would feel to see so much life come and go. Aside from a handful of flashbacks, Sentimental Value otherwise plunges us into an emotionally volatile present, with the home…