Sentimental Value 4K 2025

All roads lead to Bergman. However, while Bergman often depicted cruelty in family relationships, Trier is his complete opposite. He makes therapeutic films and proclaims: tenderness is the new punk rock.

After many years of absence, a father returns to his two daughters, who have already built their own lives. He comes not with apologies or an attempt to reconnect, but with an idea—to cast one of them in the lead role of his new film. And when both daughters encounter this emotionally frozen man, something surprising happens: in this meeting, both pain and unexpected warmth are felt simultaneously.

‘Sentimental Value’ works precisely within this paradox: a person is defined not by their traumas and mistakes, but by how they continue to live despite them. It is that very intergenerational wound that first gives rise to anger, and then—understanding. The moment the children suddenly see their parent not as a monster, but as a wounded person just like themselves, the cycle is finally broken.

Yes, it’s not easy to get into this story at first. But Trier leaves so much silence and unsaid space that every viewer inevitably fills it with their own experience. And this is where the true magic of cinema lies.