This year, the international category was the focus of much speculation; in addition to the obviously intense competition for the final five slots, there was a sense that this year's crop could break out into other categories. And so it came to pass: Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident, Kleber…

"Certainly, a lot has happened since Cannes," Norwegian director Joachim Trier told Deadline with a smile. Indeed, this morning his film made history at the Golden Globes by breaking out of the foreign-language category big-time. As well as the expected non-English nomination, Trier's film garnered…

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas is not short on sentimentality. Boasting a great relationship with her parents and a fulfilling life offscreen that includes a husband and son to boot, Lilleaas had all she needed in her arsenal to step into her latest role as Agnes Borg Pettersen in this year's Norwegian…

Elle Fanning says her work on the complex family drama Sentimental Value left her feeling her own familial anxiety when her older sister, Emmy nominee Dakota Fanning, screened Joachim Trier's Norwegian film for the first time. "I think we had a Q&A afterwards and I just started crying," Fanning…

Few actors have had a career quite like Sweden's Stellan Skarsgård, who became a big Scandi star in his late teens, blundered briefly into softcore porn, then nearly gave up TV and film altogether for theater. Something pulled him back, however, and the 74-year-old is now one of the most sought-after…

UPDATED with latest trailer: “My father is really good director, but he’s a very difficult person,” says Renate Reinsve in the new trailer for Joachim Trier’s Neon pic Sentimental Value. “We can’t really talk.” In the film co-starring Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, which won the Grand…

SENTIMENTAL VALUE Section: Special Presentations Director: Joachim Trier Screenwriter: Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier Logline: Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve lead an incomparable cast in Joachim Trier's moving drama about a director's bid to revive his career and repair his…

EXCLUSIVE: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas is the quiet sister, Agnes, opposite Renate Reinsve's louder, more histrionic older sibling Nora in Joachim Trier's unbelievably brilliant Cannes Grand Prix winner Sentimental Value. "Agnes is the diplomat of the family," Lilleaas tells us, "trying to keep everyone…

EXCLUSIVE: Joachim Trier is seated by a big picture window that looks out over the mountain range that hugs the valley where the Telluride Film Festival is located. He's here with a big picture of his own, Sentimental Value, which was a mammoth hit in Cannes, winning the Grand Prix. "That was…

At the opening of Joachim Trier’s new film Sentimental Value we meet Nora Borg (Renata Reinsve), who is the epitome of an insecure actor as she attempts to do everything in her power to get out of going on stage — a bag of nervous tics as she runs…