{"id":400499,"date":"2026-01-08T20:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/400499\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:56:08","slug":"read-screenplay-for-joachim-trier-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/400499\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Screenplay For Joachim Trier Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDeadline\u2019s Read the Screenplay<\/a> series spotlighting the scripts behind the year\u2019s most talked-about movies continues with the Cannes Film Festival-premiering\u00a0Sentimental Value<\/a>, Neon<\/a>\u2018s complex, multilayered drama from writer Eskil Vogt<\/a> and co-writer\/director Joachim Trier<\/a>. Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd, Inga lbsdotter Lilleaas, and Elle Fanning.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film won the coveted Grand Prix award at Cannes<\/a>, is Norway\u2019s official submission<\/a> International Feature Film at the Oscars and has become a frontrunner in several above-the-line categories this awards season. The film picked up eight Golden Globes nominations<\/a> including Best Picture \u2013 Drama and acting noms for Reinsve, Skarsg\u00e5rd, Lilleaas and Fanning, and seven Critics Choice nominations<\/a> including Best Picture, with both also nominating the original screenplay (which is ineligible for WGA Awards consideration<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pic also landed a leading eight European Film Awards<\/a> noms, and it cracked the shortlist for the Oscars<\/a> in the Cinematography, Casting and International Feature Film categories.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film opens by introducing the Borg family\u2019s ancestral home as a character in its own right \u2014 a living vessel of memory that tells the family\u2019s story, particularly concerning the two adult sisters Nora (Reinsve) and Agnes (Lilleaas), and the departure of their father. This perspective immediately establishes the house, with its metaphorical \u201ccrack in the home,\u201d as the central emotional battleground.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe drama ignites following the sisters\u2019 mother\u2019s wake, with the abrupt return of their estranged father, Gustav (Skarsg\u00e5rd), an acclaimed but aging director.<\/p>\n

\n\tGustav\u2019s reappearance is not a genuine apology, but a transactional offer: the lead role in his new film, which he plans to shoot at the family home. Nora, a volatile actress struggling with crippling stage fright, is consumed by deep resentment over her father\u2019s abandonment. She flatly refuses the role and abruptly leaves following a heated argument.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe tension quickly escalates. Gustav, whose relationships are defined by his art, connects in France with rising American star Rachel Kemp (Fanning) and offers her Nora\u2019s part. Nora\u2019s shock upon discovering Rachel\u2019s presence at the house confirms her worst fear: her father views his family primarily as artistic inspiration and material for his work.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe script masterfully uses Gustav\u2019s film-within-a-film \u2014 based on the traumatic life and suicide of his own mother \u2014 as a vehicle for the unspoken communication between father and daughter.
As Rachel prepares for the role, she comes to a key realization that the part, seemingly about the grandmother, is perhaps more about Nora herself. The script is Gustav\u2019s desperate attempt to communicate the pain and inherited trauma he can\u2019t express verbally.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe true emotional heart is revealed when Nora reads the rejected script aloud to Agnes. The line, \u201cI want a home,\u201d triggers a profound, tearful breakthrough. The sisters\u2019 bond, defined by their shared experience of a \u201cbroken home,\u201d becomes the ultimate source of healing, overriding their father\u2019s manipulative artistry.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe screenplay, co-written by Trier and Vogt, is being praised for its honesty in depicting how conflicted artists\u00a0use their work to process personal trauma, even as they inflict pain on those closest to them, making the movie a profound cinematic essay on love, art and the painful legacies families leave behind.<\/p>\n

\n\tRead the screenplay below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deadline\u2019s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the year\u2019s most talked-about movies continues with the Cannes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,198917,86036,344,17022,190463,86038],"class_list":{"0":"post-400499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-eskil-vogt","12":"tag-joachim-trier","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-neon","15":"tag-read-the-screenplay","16":"tag-sentimental-value"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}