This Norwegian film of just over 2 hours that has just arrived in theaters has become my latest great discovery… and it is already a candidate for the Golden Globe

To get his daughters back, Gustav turns to his new film project. He offers a very relevant role to Nora, a gesture that seems to represent a request for forgiveness and a way to process the family trauma. But Nora will reject the offer and her father then decides to give it to a young and famous Hollywood star, Rachel Kemp (Elle Fanning), which will intensify the family fracture.

Joachim Trier, one of the Norwegian filmmakers with the most international projection, once again surrounds himself with some of his regulars: not only Reinsve, his favorite actress, but also the screenwriter Eskil Vogt, which guarantees sharp dialogues, or the music of Ola Fløttum, which contributes to the atmosphere that Trier usually creates, intimate and with psychological depth.

‘Sentimental Value’, which is already positioned as one of the international films of the year (it won the Cannes Jury Prize and, in addition to the nominations for the Golden Globes, has nine nominations at the European Film Awards and another seven at the Critics Choice Awards), explores themes such as psychological abuse, artistic legacy, the importance of family and, above all, that of reconciliation between the father and daughters.

Critics agree on the enormous role of Stellan Skarsgård as Gustav Borg: the film director, a complex and manipulative patriarch. They say of him that he has created “an ogre without fangs, a tyrant without fuss”, one of those people who subtly mistreats. He is one of the great attractions of a film that you have to see, no matter what, because he is giving a lot of people to talk about.

Begoña Alonso is an expert in leisure, culture and lifestyle, coordinating the Living section in Elle.es for more than six years. Running the Living section means that you might as well write a report on the best horror series on Netflix as an article about travel and honeymoons, a profile of a feminist activist or a list of the best books in history that you have to read.

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She always says that life doesn’t give her everything: books, agenda, music, leisure, cinema, series, streaming platforms (Netflix, Amazon, HBO, Disney+, Filmin, Movistar+, Apple TV+…), motherhood, television, feminism, travel, culture, lifestyle, motors, technology… But she is capable of reaching everywhere to always offer the most current and interesting content.

Begoña Alonso graduated in 1999 in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid, but has almost 30 years of experience in the profession. It premiered in local media such as Huelva Información or Las Provincias, went on neighborhood radio stations doing film programs and then landed in the world of paper, in media such as La Razón, Maxim or Reporter.

After 9 years dedicated to ‘branded content’, Begoña has been at ELLE for a decade, the same time that has passed since she won the 20 Blogs Award for ‘The Best of the 80s’, a music blog from the 80s, one of her passions. He also loves wedding movies and spends more time planning trips than actually carrying them out, but that’s another story.