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Expectations couldn’t possibly be higher for Trier’s follow-up to “The Worst Person in the World,” and if initial word-of-mouth is to be believed, “Sentimental Value” (Original title: Affeksjonsverdi) has more than delivered. Maybe—just maybe—the overwhelming sweep of Palme d’Or buzz (culminating in an eventual second-place Grand Prix win) and annual Neon exhalation might be due in part to Trier’s chosen approach that has resonated with the artistic crowd: healing through the artistic process.

Yeah, this is gonna be one of those movies, and given Trier’s Bergmanian touches to the overlap of life and art, it might not be presumptuous to compare “Sentimental Value,” in some way, to Mia Hansen-Løve’s own art-reckoning project “Bergman Island.” In Trier’s case, the attempted reconciliation takes on his usual millennial quirk in such a way that sometimes risks diverting the emotional power of the ideas he...

The 77th Cannes Film Festival continues on Day 9 with two world premieres: Oliver Hermanus’s The History of Sound, starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, and director Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, which reunites him with The Worst Person in the World actress Renate Reinsve.

Guests at the premiere for The History of Sound included Teri Hatcher, Taraji P. Henson, Aja Naomi King, John C. Reilly, Julian Assange, Michelle Rodriguez, Edward Enninful, Naomi Campbell, Jenny Slate

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Mescal stars as Lionel, a gifted singer from rural Kentucky, who leaves his family farm in 1917 to attend the Boston Music Conservatory. There, he meets David (O’Connor), a charming music student soon drafted into the war. In 1920, the two spend the winter in Maine, passionately collecting folk songs. As Lionel builds a successful life in Europe, he...