Acclaimed director Joachim Trier said his new Cannes competition entry "Sentimental Value" is centred on reconciliation and family, topics the 51-year-old reflected on while working on the script with long-time collaborator Eskil Vogt.

It took nearly until the end of the festival, but the Cannes Film Festival has its first outright sensation. Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” premiered Wednesday night to the kind of rapturous response that Cannes is fabled for.

Joachim Trier returned to the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday night to world premiere his new film Sentimental Value, which scored an extraordinary 19-minute standing ovation after its screening at the Grand Théâtre Lumière.