Best Picture Power Rankings and the Super-Sincerity of ‘Sentimental Value,’ With Joachim Trier! Plus: Regretting ‘Regretting You.’

The Big Picture

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Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Sean and Amanda begin the show by discussing the imminent sale of Warner Brothers Discovery, consider the potential implications of a merger with one of Paramount, Comcast, or Netflix, and debate which scenario is the most likely outcome (1:22). Then, they cover the new Colleen Hoover adaptation ‘Regretting You’ starring Allison Williams and Dave Franco, which they found absolutely baffling (17:28). Next, they have an extensive conversation around Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value,’ starring Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgard, where they explore why some people are connecting to the film so strongly, while for others it doesn't seem to resonate (47:15). Finally, Trier joins the show to explain how much of himself is actually mapped onto Skarsgard’s character, how being a good listener and observant of the world around you translates to strong characterization, and the story of shooting in a house that was down the street he grew up on (1:33:54). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guest: Joachim Trier Producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Harry.
0:00.7	Hello mate.
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0:40.7	I'm Sean Fennacy.
0:41.6	I'm Amanda Dobbins. And this is the Big Picture A Conversation Show about sentimental value and sentimental crap,
0:46.7	or bad dads and their distant daughters.
0:50.5	On today's episode, we're discussing two new releases.
0:52.5	The first is the latest Colleen Hoover adaptation, regretting you,
0:56.1	which has quietly become one of the most successful films of the fall,
0:59.6	and is an utterly baffling slice of melodramatic poppycock, Amanda.
1:04.7	The second film is Joachim Trier's sentimental value of family drama
1:07.8	about a patriarch filmmaker and his two daughters in the house that binds them.
1:11.2	It's the new film from the Norwegian filmmaker. For me, one of his best yet. I spoke to Joachim. You can hear that later in this episode. He's a very thoughtful and interesting guy. He's been on the show before. We'll also cap off the month of November with an updated Best Picture Power Rankings, which will be the last time we talked Best Picture until the Golden Globe nominations on December 8th. How are you feeling about that? Are we coming in at 7 a.m.? I think so. Okay. I think I need to see Song Sung Blue that morning. So we're going to come in early. Oh, I thought that you were saying that you needed to see Song, Sung, Blue before the Golden Globe nominations announced that there is a musical comedy category. I think it could be in the mix. They want
1:48.7	Kate Hudson at that table. They do, they do. Okay, before we get into all of that, and that is a
1:54.1	full slate. Normally that would be more than enough for an episode, you know, conversation with a
1:58.6	filmmaker, two new movies. We're recording this on a
2:01.9	Friday. This is a fateful Friday. I don't know what's going to transpire over the next 72
2:06.8	hours before this episode drops. Probably a lot, because you know what I just remembered? We're
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