Sentimental Value
A slow-burn Norwegian family drama in which two sisters confront their estranged filmmaker father after their mother's death, with suicide as a sustained thematic thread. Content is emotionally heavy but restrained; there is no graphic violence or explicit sexuality.
Explicit sexual contentSelf-harm & suicideHarm to childrenMedical traumaGraphic violence & goreAbuse & manipulationSubstance abuse
If you’d rather skip
The film's subject matter -- a screenplay built around a family suicide -- is established early; the theme recurs throughout the entire film.
Brief out-of-focus flash of female nudity (sunbathing); a separate scene shows a couple in bed after sex, no nudity.
A woman asks a male colleague to slap her to break through severe stage fright; he complies -- depicted as a consensual request under duress rather than an attack.