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.

Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” premiered Wednesday night to the kind of rapturous response that Cannes is fabled for. The film, starring Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård and Elle Fanning, marked Trier’s follow-up to his lauded 2021 film “The Worst Person in the World.”

Charli xcx first declared a “Joachim Trier summer” at Coachella, and now Elle Fanning — one of the stars of his new film “Sentimental Value” — is doubling down. On Thursday, Fanning rocked a white T-shirt bearing the phrase to the Cannes Film Festival press conference for the film,