When Charli XCX coined ”Joachim Trier Summer “earlier this year, who knew it would soon be transformed into” Joachim Trier Fall “, and now,” Joachim Trier Awards season. “
His latest, “Sentimental value,” Debuted at the 63rd New York Film Festival on September 30 and sent its Cannes Grand Prix winner at yet further prize. His follow -up of “the worst person in the world” film centers on two daughters (Renate Reinve and Inbsdotter Lilleaas) reunited with its foreign filmmaker Father (Stellan Skarsgård) after their mother dies, and when he prepares for his next project.
“This movie is somehow a continuation of previous work, but it’s also something new,” Trier told IndieWire on the red carpet in Alice Tullly Hall. “Very often we have focused on singular characters in our films, and this is really like an ensemble bit. It’s more a polyphonic story about the family and trying to find the silents in between, by changing the point of view, changing perspectives all the time.”
“Worst Person” star Reinve plays Nora, an actress who is best known for her stage work. When her father, Gustav, hopes to throw her in her comeback movie, she first rejects the script. Enter Rachel Kemp, an American actress played by Elle fanning. After becoming tears of one of the director’s previous films, she meets Gustav and stops taking the role, thrown full gas in the complicated dynamics of a family in need. When it comes to Reinsve, this project was already in conversation when she and Trier filmed their last, “The worst person in the world.” This film marks their third collaboration together, including her one-line role in 2011’s “Oslo, August 31”, her film debut.
“It was actually during that photography (on” worst person “) we felt the artistic connection on the set, and it was very naive and open,” Reinve said. “We started talking about different characteristics of a character, as if this and that, but there was no room for it in that movie.”
“Opening that script (for” sentimental value “) was so scary,” she continued. “He knows me much better now, both as a person and an actor, so I was very curious about how he wanted to challenge me this time. It was really exciting to read the role with so much emotional weight and play with what she knew about herself and what she did not know about herself. We have so much confidence now. It is so much fun.”
Trier worked with many former collaborators on this movie, including best friend and co -author Eskil Vogt. But the Golden Globe -Nominated Fanning was brand new for the mix. “I learned so much,” she said to work with the director.
“I feel that I’m spoiled now to be on his movie set, because it’s a pretty beautiful thing,” Fanning continued. “He really sees you, and he also knows what he wants. He really lets you feel free and vulnerable, and he pulls these things out of you that have been resting inside or is the kind of subconscious. Then you are in the moment, and he is right next to the camera too while you movies.
Trier also beamed when I brought up the fact that Norway chose the film as a submission for best international feature films by next year Oscar. “It’s beyond my control, but I’m grateful to be chosen by the Norwegian Film Institute.”
“As an actor, it is important to keep distances with bad reviews and good reviews; it can be scary,” Reinve said of the film’s scary reception from Cannes. “We were really afraid to go to Cannes with this movie. I was so relieved and so happy. It has been really good. You make a movie to find a collective in some things you feel that is personal to yourself, and then you have people to answer it in their way and have conversations (where) you learn even more about these feelings.”
She also came of shooting “The rear room,” With Kane Parsons with whom the youngest director A24 has ever worked with. The viral Youtube horror series has collected almost 200 million views since the 2022 debut and before he got a feature film Greenlight. “He was so impressive,” Reinve said.
“He turned 20 during the photography. He was very sure what he wanted, and I love that he has not really seen so many films. His references are completely different, so it was very exciting to work with someone who only had these ideas (where I did not know the references).”
When it comes to fanning, it was announced last month that she will start with Nicole Kidman in a legal thriller series from A24 entitled “Discretion.” The project marks their third collaboration, following Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled” 2017 and the upcoming Apple TV+ program “Margo’s Got Money Problems.”
“Oh my God, I love Nicole to death,” she said. “I love her. We have worked three times now in more of an ensemble capacity, and we are friends, and we have come very close, but now we have to go to our toe in this one (which was just announced). It’s a real two-hand, this show.”
“(It was) extremely good,” Skarsgård also customs indifire to work with trier. “He sits right next to the camera watching the details of your performance. He is after what happens in man, no matter what you say, and that’s what I do in my spectacle. That’s not what you say, that’s how you say it.”
Neon releases “Sentimental Value” in selected theaters November 7. Check out the trailer here.
