Stellan Skarsgård comes down to the lobby restaurant of the Ritz-Carlton on Central Park a few minutes late on account of his son Gustaf, who called after seeing his father in Joachim Trier’s latest movie, Sentimental Value. “I know exactly what this is about. Do you recognize yourself?” Stellan-as-Gustaf recalls. “Yeah, yeah. I know,” he groused back. In the film, the patriarch of the Skarsgård acting clan (seven of his eight children, including Alexander, Bill, and Gustaf, have gone into the business) plays Gustav Borg, a director in the winter of his life trying to connect with his daughter (Renate Reinsve) by offering her the lead role in his new movie. Sentimental Value could earn him the first Oscar nomination of his six-decade career, which runs from the bleak melodramas of Lars

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