Cannes 2025: "Sentimental Value," home escape home

We first wonder what this story of a house is doing there, told in the first person, grumbling or congratulating itself on the weight of those who inhabit it, who live in it and damage it. A crack that crosses it from the roof to the cellar is a nod to Poe, the superposition of the same room in different periods refers to the Here by Richard McGuire adapted by Robert Zemeckis and we worry that the Norwegian Joachim Trier, after the revival of Julie (in 12 chapters) , has embarked on the path of a big machine which will lose us in a thousand theoretical skeins.

But we just needed time to integrate that this access of fantasy is that of its protagonist, Nora, when she was still a teenager and that the house is inseparable from the family who lives there –