Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård brought Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value, winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, to a gala at the BFI London Film Festival.
Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, had its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank on Sunday 12 October 2025. Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård brought it to the BFI London Film Festival.
Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia, in 1998 and made her film debut at three in I Am Sam, playing the younger self of her sister Dakota’s character. Somewhere, Super 8 and Maleficent took her from child actor to lead, and she went on to play Catherine the Great in The Great.
Skarsgård, born in 1951, is the Swedish actor of Breaking the Waves, and Mamma Mia!, and Baron Harkonnen in Dune. Here he plays Gustav Borg, a once-celebrated director who returns to his estranged daughters.
Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas play the daughters, Nora and Agnes. Fanning plays Rachel, a young American actress in the new film Gustav is preparing. Trier wrote it with Eskil Vogt and set it in the Oslo house Gustav’s family has owned for generations.
Skarsgård’s performance later won him a Golden Globe, and Mubi released the film in British cinemas on 26 December.