is there really no thread for joachim freaking trier?

SENTIMENTAL VALUE is extraordinary. from david erlich’s review:

Few recent movies have reconciled the difference between [“the resentful ocean of lost time that stretches between the truth of who their parents actually were, and the fiction of the characters they’ve created for them to play in their minds”] with the same tenderness that “Sentimental Value” achieves by the end of its soul-melting final sequence (though Charlotte Wells’ more haunted but equally poignant “Aftersun” comes to mind). Even fewer have so elegantly literalized how the love that parents are able to share with their children — and vice versa — can be limited by their ability to express it. Almost none have more beautifully explored the role that making art, which is to speak without talking, can play in facilitating that process.

hoping to see it this weekend. very much enjoyed oslo august 31 and the worst person in the world.

It's good.

Overrated. Reprise and Oslo 31. August were really good, but anything since then has been diminishing returns. Haven't seen Sentimental Value, though, but sounds like more of the same.