{"id":2009407,"date":"2025-09-09T17:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2009407"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:37:08","slug":"why-joachim-trier-dropped-the-irony-in-sentimental-value-i-had-to-be-a-better-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-joachim-trier-dropped-the-irony-in-sentimental-value-i-had-to-be-a-better-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Joachim Trier Dropped the Irony in \u2018Sentimental Value\u2019: \u201cI Had to Be a Better Director\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">For his latest film, Joachim Trier is playing it straight.<\/p>\n<p>In his career to date, the Danish-Norwegian director has often pivoted between realism and moments where irony and the surreal puncture the everyday. Think of the dream-like narrative in his debut <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0827517\/\">Reprise<\/a> (2006) where the lives of two aspiring Oslo writers are told via jump-cut flash-forwards and imagined futures that undercut his characters\u2019 youthful ambitions; of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt23778968\/\">Thelma<\/a> (2017), a sexual coming-of-age tale where a devout young woman\u2019s suppressed desire manifests as telekinetic powers; or of the transcendent moment of cinematic magic in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10370710\/\">The Worst Person in the World<\/a> (2021), when time stops as our heroine Julie (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4561559\/\">Renate Reinsve<\/a>) runs through Oslo, past the city\u2019s frozen citizens, in her escape from her ex-lover towards her future one.<\/p>\n<p>There are no such moments in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27714581\/\">Sentimental Value<\/a> (2025). For the family drama, about a film director father <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm14352227\/\">Gustav Borg<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001745\/\">Stellan Skarsgard<\/a>), estranged from his two adult daughters,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For his latest film, Joachim Trier is playing it straight. In his career to date, the Danish-Norwegian director has often pivoted between realism and moments where irony and the surreal puncture the everyday. 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