Abstract
- Collider’s Steve Weintraub talks with Joachim Trier for Sentimental Worth.
- The author-director discusses making his movies with full inventive management and highlighting and using the great thing about Norway.
- He additionally shares a enjoyable story from the Telluride Movie Pageant, the place Alexander Skarsgård noticed the movie for the very first time.
After the wild success of 2021’s Worst Particular person within the World and already a nearly-perfect essential response to Sentimental Worth, Academy Award-nominated writer-director Joachim Trier discusses the deserves and the which means of creating a “Hollywood film” with Collider’s Steve Weintraub. Having constructed his profession on tackling difficult feelings and the exploration of how we, as people, navigate them, is an enormous funds in change for inventive freedom a deal value making because the cinematic tides shift?
To that, the director poses a query of his personal. “What is Hollywood?” He continues, “It is not what it was once. It is one thing completely different.” Now, with so many blockbusters and franchises and canceled sequence after canceled sequence at our fingertips, audiences are increasing their viewing horizons. With out disparaging superhero motion pictures or enjoyable, popcorn motion motion pictures, it appears there is a rising demand for story-driven, character-driven dramas, and Trier is proud to maintain highlighting Norway.
“[Hollywood’s] nonetheless making superb movies, to not diminish the standard of labor, however I am making movies in part of the world the place it looks as if all of the sudden persons are desirous about what was once known as ‘overseas language,’ or now ‘worldwide motion pictures.’ I will work with great actors. Elle Fanning got here to Norway for this. We did a little bit of it in English, a little bit of it in Norwegian. It felt very free, and I did not speculate. It was similar to a private story I might inform at dwelling. So, my query is, why would I’m going someplace else? Except there was a selected story I might inform, after which that may come into play. However I am fairly comfortable making the movies I’m, thus far.”
Two Individuals in a Park
“I assume that is the cliché.”
His newest drama, Sentimental Worth, starring Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning, and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, explores the tense relationship between a celebrated director (Skarsgård) and his two daughters, Nora (Reinsve) and Agnes (Ibsdotter Lilleaas). Previous grievances are dredged again up when filmmaker Gustav Borg affords his daughter an element in his new movie, and, with out studying the script, Nora refuses.
On this dialog, Trier talks about condensing his authentic three-hour lower of the movie, sacrificing character moments for the story, his trademark sequences that spotlight the great thing about Oslo (“two individuals stroll right into a park”), and the way he’s going to resolve what to do subsequent. You may try the complete interview within the video above, with time stamps under.
- 00:10 – Exhibiting Alexander Skarsgård How It’s Performed
- 01:50 – Celebrating at Cannes
- 02:27 – “What Is Hollywood?”
- 04:18 – Making Sacrifices within the Edit
- 06:12 – Two Individuals in a Park
- 07:06 – Concepts for the Future
- Launch Date
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November 7, 2025
- Runtime
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132 Minutes
- Director
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Joachim Trier
- Writers
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Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
- Producers
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Nathanaël Karmitz, Maria Ekerhovd, Elisha Karmitz, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
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Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas
Agnes
