"Sentimental Value is very much a film about a house - a Victorian " dragestil," or "dragon style," home in Oslo where generations of the same family have lived for more than a 100 years. Director Joachim Trier, who found the house in Oslo's Frogner neighborhood, called its role in the film "a witness of the unspoken ... a witness of the 20th century.""
"The home's changing décor shows the passage of time for our characters - the patriarch, Gustav, and his daughters, Nora and Agnes. Fussy wallpaper comes down. The library becomes an office. And lighting - pendant lamps, floor lamps, table lamps - migrates from room to room, flicking on and off. It's here I'd like to draw your attention - Sentimental Value is also a lamp movie, an incidental showcase for decades of European design."
Sentimental Value centers on a Victorian "dragestil" house in Oslo inhabited by one family for over a century. The house's changing décor and migrating lighting signal the passage of time for Gustav and his daughters, Nora and Agnes. Production designer Jørgen Stangebye Larsen and his team obsessively selected lamps to express era, location, and character, conducting lamp tests and collaborating with cinematographer Kasper Tuxen and set decorator Catrine Gormsen. Specific designs—Apollo by Hay, an Arco, and the Artemide Tolomeo—are used to anchor authenticity. Vintage fixtures communicate long-term habitation; some scenes were lit primarily by practical lamps.
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