Sentimental Value
December 26th 2025, I went into the local picturehouse with my friend. The movie we went in to watch on that day was Marty Supreme. Josh Safdie’s first film without his brother which highlighted his brilliance. However, despite the success and lasting impact that Marty Supreme had left on me and what I’d like to think as my spontaneous personality, there was another movie being advertised in the picturehouse. That movie was Sentimental Value. At the time I knew nothing of Joachim Trier nor Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleas but only of Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fannig of whom are on my blunt rotation. Today I watched Sentimental Value not once but twice. That was how good the movie was. I would go into detail and say how good the movie was but all I can say is that it is a meticulously crafted masterpiece. I would like to give it higher marks for what it did to me which was striking a nerve as well as giving me inspiration as a film student. It was a movie which at times filled me with hope. But it just cannot compare to what these other movies have done. Also Inga’s acting was beautiful.