Classic Movies Live Season 6, Episode 27 – Sentimental Value
November 26, 2025
This week on Classic Movies Live! our hosts talk about the winner of the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival!
Sentimental Value reunites director Joachim Trier with star Renate Reinsve to tell the story of Nora, a Norwegian theatre actress in the middle of a bold new production of Hamlet whose life is thrown into disarray by the reappearance of her film director father, Gustav (Stellan Skarsgard). Gustav wants Nora to star in his latest film, a deeply personal story that he claims he wrote specially for her. Nora, of course, wants no part in it, so Gustav instead casts American superstar Rachel Kemp (Elle Fanning) to play the lead instead.
Sentimental Value is an affecting story about relationships that may as well be impossible to fix, and people unable to communicate with each other. A story about things going unspoken that makes surprisingly effective narrative use of that unspokenness. Between an amazing script, great performances from all three leads, and Trier’s unique deadpan sense of humour, it’s a film that shouldn’t be missed!
So luckily, our hosts didn’t miss it! Check out our thoughts on this eventual classic movie… live!
…and also in this episode, we talk about a new release reuniting the Four Horsemen of Magic! We saw that one, too!
