Sentimental Value, directed by Joachim Trier, follows acclaimed stage actress Nora (Renate Reinsve) as she reunites with her estranged, once-renowned director father, Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), who wants her to star in his comeback film, a deeply personal project about his own mother; after Nora declines, he casts a young American star (Elle Fanning), forcing the family to confront their fraught history, generational trauma, and the performances that bind and divide them.