I'm happy to go to any movie set in Norway or in Norwegian, as part of my education in the country & the language. I watch Peppa Gris all the time & am none the worse for it, although it's not, y'know, exactly intellectually challenging. I would have gone to see Sentimental Value to hear people speaking norsk, but to love the film as well was a real bonus. The main tension is between father & daughter, but the beautiful & subtle relationship is between the sisters. I could understand a lot, not everything, in part because the father was speaking Swedish (not mumbling, as I thought at first). I feel like I'm still living in their reality.
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