Where Was Sentimental Value Filmed? An Intimate Look at Joachim Trier's Oslo

'Sentimental Value' Editor on Crafting Bittersweet Moments in Joachim Trier's Oscar Contender

“There’s a very short distance between pain and humor,” Danish film editor Olivier Bugge Coutté explained when asked about the bittersweet quality in the much-loved movies of Joachim Trier. Bugge Coutté has been friends with Trier for 30 years and has edited all the director’s films, including 2021’s “The Worst Person in the World” and 2025’s “Sentimental Value,” for which he has been nominated for an Oscar. His credits also include tonal blend-…

Review: In ‘Sentimental Value’, great actors deliver emotional truths about art and family

Joachim Trier’s Oscar-nominated drama is out on MUBI.

Where Was Sentimental Value Filmed? An Intimate Look at Joachim Trier's Oslo

A tour of the Norwegian capital by way of the director's Oscar-nominated movie.

Joachim Trier and the science of self-doubt

To celebrate the streaming release of Sentimental Value on MUBI, we take a look at the Danish-Norwegian filmmaker’s wonderful knack for celebrating human complexity. Walt Whitman famously professed in his poem ‘Song to Myself’ to “contain multitudes”, and in doing so encapsulated the mysteries of the human condition and the idea that people are, in many respects, completely unknowable. As a viewer, this iconic quotation came to mind the first ti…