Joachim Trier may be cinema’s most delicate and deft dramatist—a writer/director whose films are bursting with thorny emotional dynamics that play out in achingly complicated ways.

With Sentimental Value, the 51-year-old Norwegian auteur crafts a lyrical portrait of home as the epicenter of both familial conflict and rapprochement via the story of a reunion that rocks the fragile stability of a father and his two daughters. A tale about an absentee film-director parent and the wounded child who channels her grief, anger, and confusion through performance, it’s a heartbreaking saga of estrangement and art’s capacity for fostering understanding and reconciliation. Even in a crowded end-of-year field, it stands out as one of 2025’s absolute finest.

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