Art&Cinema
Sentimental Value
04.03.2026
Sentimental Value: The House
If you haven’t seen Sentimental Value yet, you are lucky. The new film by Joachim Trier is a masterpiece of characters, relationships and emotions—but also, crucially, of spaces. Perhaps the true protagonists are the spaces themselves: the house, the dining room, the study, the bedrooms, the corridors.
The house is the film’s first image and the true engine of its narrative. It is both old and new, painful and welcoming. It is filled with memories yet still yearning for a future. The house in Sentimental Value was conceived by Jørgen Stangebye Larsen, who is based in Oslo but works internationally. Each environment is designed as a layering of lived experience. The house becomes nest and prison, past, light and shadow. It listens and speaks, almost like a character.
Working alongside set decorator Catrine Gormes, production designer Larsen created interiors that combine, with quiet elegance, IKEA furniture and iconic design pieces such as the Arco Lamp and the Pernilla Armchair. Furniture by Alvar Aalto and Arne Jacobsen also appears throughout the film’s interiors, helping to shape the emotional landscape of the characters—even those who are no longer present.
Go and see it with confidence. Much will resonate within you and, almost without noticing, it may refine your eye as well.
