The absent father who returns to try to make up for lost time. A father who was also a successful director and is now not only trying to reconcile with his daughters, but also wants one of them, a theater actress, to star in his new film, based on their own lives. Of course, the girl, still angry, rejects him and he replaces her with a Hollywood star. This is the premise of sentimental value (released in theaters on December 5), new film from the director of Triumphant The worst person in the world, the Norwegian Joachim Trier. Stellan Skarsgård is the father, Renate Reinsve, the actress sister; Inga Ibsdotter, the other sister, and Elle Fanning (Georgia, 27), the movie star.
“I know, it’s a role with a lot of metacinema,” laughed Fanning at the last Cannes Film Festival, where the film won the Grand Jury Prize in what appears to be the start of a long season of recognition. “It was a bit the same, Joachim called me, I was in New York finishing filming A complete stranger and I immediately went to New Zealand to film Predator: Badlands (also now in the cinema), I had the impression of being Rachel, my character, meeting a European director between two big productions. It’s not that I had his career, I didn’t do as much. blockbusters – Predator It was something new for me too, but I understand why she feels that way,” he explains.
“This way” is about trying to be taken seriously by abandoning Hollywood for a moment, to create your own talent and “a door to open”. “She realizes that she is a good actress, but she is not the best for this role and it happens, it happened to me, I have never abandoned a filming, but I asked to be able to play another role in which I saw myself more”, admits Fanning, who began working when she was only three years old interpreting the young version of her sister Dakota, in I am Sam. Fanning also recognizes herself in Rachel listing those films, “those doors,” that were steps to continue climbing to the climactic moment she is currently experiencing. Thanks to Women of the 20th century, For example, he reached Sentimental value: “The director, Mike Mills, recommended Joachim to me,” he reveals and continues his list. “Super 8, what I did when I was 12 was the film that made me famous, even though it had been going on for a while, until then everyone confused me with Dakota,” he remembers with a laugh. “And The neon demon, what I already did at 17, was my step towards something more mature that I did with the idea of surprising by showing a more provocative and twisted side, what I wanted to repeat as Catherine the Great in The Great… And it opened other doors for me that I didn’t expect,” she admits. Like this one: at the doors of the Oscars for a European film, playing, in a way, a version of herself.
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