Norway/ France/Denmark/Germany • d: Joachim Trier • R • 134m • English & Norwegian w/ English subtitles
In his sixth film, the Oscar-nominated director Joachim Trier (THELMA, THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD) takes on Bergman’s canonical topics: women, actresses, theatrical illusion, and family trauma. But Trier ingeniously and thrillingly makes them his own. Renate Reinsve is brilliant as Nora, a gifted stage performer who is still wrestling with her relationship with Gustave, her famous film-director father (Stellan Skarsgård), who abandoned her years before. Skarsgård, a former Telluride tributee, conveys an astonishingly subtle mix of charisma and childish selfishness. The superb supporting cast includes Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas as Nora’s reliable sister, and Elle Fanning as a Hollywood movie star with touching artistic aspirations. SENTIMENTAL VALUE, which Trier again wrote with his longtime collaborator Eskil Vogt, is soulful, deeply thoughtful and enormously entertaining. –Larry Gross (Norway/ France/Denmark/Germany, 2025, 134m)
About the Telluride Film Festival
The Telluride Film Festival has been, for the last 50 years, a celebration of the art of film: honoring the great masters of the cinema, discovering the rare and unknown, bringing new works by the world’s greatest directors and the latest in American independent film to a small mountain town in Colorado. The New York Times called Telluride “the smallest, most original, and most stimulating of the major festivals,” while Entertainment Tonight simply said it was “the world’s best festival.”
About Telluride By The Sea
The Music Hall and the Telluride Film Festival collaborate on an exclusive presentation of six new features, brought directly from their Colorado debuts. This unique and intimate Portsmouth event treats audience members from across the Northeast to an exclusive peek into the Telluride experience—packing one September weekend in Portsmouth with the latest international cinema, private parties, great music, delicious food, and inspired conversations with other cinephiles of all ages, tastes, and backgrounds.
Schedule
Fri., 9/12 • 7pm • JAY KELLY
Sat., 9/13 • 12:30pm • NOUVELLE VAGUE
Sat., 9/13 • 3pm • LA GRAZIA
Sat., 9/13 • 7pm • BUGONIA
Sun., 9/14 • 12pm • THE SECRET AGENT
Sun., 9/14 • 3:30pm • SENTIMENTAL VALUE
Sun., 9/14 • 7:15pm • A PRIVATE LIFE
