Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier’s Cannes-laureled family drama, is heading from its acclaimed 2025 theatrical run to a wide digital streeaming rollout just in time for the holidays, with a confirmed late-December home release window. The film will be available to rent and buy on major PVOD platforms from December 23, 2025, giving audiences their first at-home chance to experience Trier’s latest collaboration with frequent star Renate Reinsve.​
What is Sentimental Value About?
Set between Oslo soundstages and a sun-drenched southern European villa, Sentimental Value follows sisters Nora and Agnes as they reunite with their estranged father Gustav, a once-renowned film director plotting a comeback that blurs the line between family therapy and artistic opportunism. When Gustav offers stage actor Nora the lead in his new film and then quietly hands the role to a hungry young Hollywood star after she refuses, old wounds around abandonment, ego, and artistic exploitation begin to rupture.​
Trier uses this deceptively simple premise to probe the fragile economy of love, loyalty, and resentment that builds up inside a family of performers who have spent years turning life into material. Across its generous running time, the film shifts between caustic comedy and aching melancholy, treating memories, props, and even casting choices as forms of currency in an ongoing negotiation between past hurt and the desire to move forward.​
Where to Watch Sentimental Value Online?
NEON is expected to release Sentimental Value on VOD and digital platforms on December 23, 2025, following its North American theatrical bow earlier in November. This will be a standard digital transactional rollout, meaning viewers can rent or purchase the film at home at typical new-release pricing. If you wish to buy/rent the title, you can head here. ​
While individual storefront pages are still in the process of surfacing, the title is slated to appear on major services such as Apple TV, Amazon, and other usual PVOD hubs where NEON regularly debuts its films. In some territories, early listings and aggregation sites already flag the film as coming soon to digital libraries, signaling a coordinated global push that will extend its reach far beyond the limited art-house footprint of its theatrical launch.​
When and Where Will Sentimental Value Stream?
A specific subscription streaming home for Sentimental Value has not yet been publicly confirmed, and there is no official date for it to land on a flat-rate platform like Netflix, Hulu, or Max. For now, the only firm at-home window is the December 23 PVOD launch, with additional subscription deals likely to follow once the transactional period has run its course.​
What is clear is that the film’s digital release will make it available on multiple on-demand ecosystems at once—Apple, Amazon, Fandango at Home, Plex, and similar outlets—creating several simultaneous entry points for viewers who missed its fall theatrical run. ​
Festival Run & Critical Reception
Sentimental Value premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix second-place prize, immediately cementing itself as one of the year’s key international arthouse releases. Norway subsequently selected the film as its official submission for the 98th Academy Awards’ Best International Feature category, further boosting its awards-season visibility.​
Since Cannes, the film has enjoyed a robust festival and specialty-cinema life, opening in France in August before rolling out to the U.S. in early November via NEON and then continuing to additional territories through late 2025. Critical response has been overwhelmingly positive, with the film earning strong ratings on major review aggregators and being singled out for Trier’s precise direction and an ensemble that balances prickly humor with bruising emotional honesty.​
Why Watch Sentimental Value?
For viewers drawn to intimate, performance-driven dramas about parents and adult children trying to rewrite old narratives, Sentimental Value offers a layered, often painfully funny study of how people use art to process what they cannot say outright. The film places family conversations, rehearsals, and on-set power plays under the same microscope, turning every blocked scene and rewritten line into a clue about who is really directing whom.​
Fans of Joachim Trier’s previous work—and of contemporary Scandinavian cinema more broadly—will recognize the filmmaker’s knack for blending bittersweet romance, existential drift, and sharply observed social detail into something quietly devastating. Anchored by a cast that includes Renate Reinsve and a transnational supporting ensemble, Sentimental Value looks poised to become an essential entry in Trier’s filmography and a touchstone for future stories about the emotional stakes of making movies with the people you love.
