{"id":1573,"date":"2025-12-18T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2025-12-29T10:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T15:03:30","slug":"sentimental-value-thursday-december-18th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/18\/sentimental-value-thursday-december-18th\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentimental Value. Bye bye &#8217;25."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SV1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SV1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SV1-540x360.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tonight was (unofficially) our Christmas special, and final screening of the year. Joachim Trier&#8217;s <em>Sentimental Value<\/em>, an astute examination of familial dysfunction, seemed a fitting movie for the Holidays. Blood is indeed thicker than water although, at times, viscosity can be complicated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sentimental Value<\/em> is a masterpiece, in my opinion&#8230; never a misstep, and fine performances from the entire cast. Above all, Renate Reinsve&#8217;s performance was mesmerizing, as it was in Trier&#8217;s last feature, <em>The Worst Person in the World<\/em>. Ironically, she was about to give up on her unsuccessful acting career just before she got called for <em>Worst Person<\/em>. Look at her now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to the lovely folks who came out tonight. See you next year ))<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27714581\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight was (unofficially) our Christmas special, and final screening of the year. Joachim Trier&#8217;s Sentimental Value, an astute examination of familial dysfunction, seemed a fitting movie for the Holidays. Blood is indeed thicker than water although, at times, viscosity can be complicated. Sentimental Value is a masterpiece, in my opinion&#8230; never a misstep, and fine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/18\/sentimental-value-thursday-december-18th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sentimental Value. Bye bye &#8217;25.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}