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Renate Reinsve Says Trier Wrote Her ‘Sentimental Value’ Role as Film Widens Friday

Reinsve highlights Trier’s collaborative process behind the film’s intimate father–daughter focus.

Overview

  • The film reaches a wider theatrical release on Friday, according to a new interview with Reinsve.
  • The story follows stage actor Nora, her younger sister Agnes, and their fraught bond with their father Gustav, a once‑renowned director plotting a comeback.
  • Reinsve plays Nora opposite Stellan Skarsgård, who portrays Gustav.
  • Reinsve describes Nora and Gustav as admirers of each other whose closeness is blocked by anger and unresolved trauma.
  • She says Trier’s process is highly collaborative, with carefully written characters and room for actors’ interpretation, and she praises Skarsgård’s delicate performance.