余韻が残るほど良い作品でした
今回は足腰が不安定ということもあって外出は最小限にして自宅にこもっています。それで、昨夜は娘が「映画を観ない？」と言ってきたので、作品を相手に任せたら、ノルウェイの「Sentimental Value (センチメンタル・バリュー）(2025)」を選びました。私は全然利用していませんが、netflixで自宅のパソコンで観られるものです。
ノルウェイ語の映画で英語の字幕。途中で寝てしまうのではないかと心配しましたが、終わって余韻が残るほど良い作品でした。日本でも公開されたのではないかと思いますが、幼い頃離婚して家を出ていった映画監督の老いた父と、父を拒絶している、舞台女優になった姉、姉よりは冷静に父を見ている妹の３人の関係が描かれた作品です。
映像の撮り方に最初から引き込まれ、ドラマチックな会話もなく淡々とそれぞれが話しているところがいかにも現実的で、内面が滲み出る俳優たちの微妙な表情に演技の上手さが窺われました。劇中劇が随所にあって、見ていて、えっ、今のは芝居？！と驚かされることも監督の手腕なのでしょう。背景に流れる効果音楽のようなものも殆どなく、淡々とした中にもしっかりとしたドラマ性があり、皆が救われる最後であったことにほっとしました。
桃の節句のために娘が生まれた時にいただいた雛人形を飾りました。３０数年前に生を受けて親子の関係になったことをしみじみ幸福に思います。
My legs are still unstable when I walk, so I am staying almost always at home. Last night, my daughter invited me to watch a movie at home.
She chose a Norwegian movie “Sentimental Value (2025)”. She said she can watch movies if you are a member of something like Netflix.
I was afraid of falling asleep because it was a Norwegian movie which I don’t understand at all even with English subtitles as I would not be able to catch up to it. Nevertheless I was drawn into the movie and it was really good. The movie showed the relationship between an aged father who is a movie director and divorced early and left his two daughters, the elder of whom became an stage actress but had been refusing her father, compared to the younger daughter who is more generous than her sister to her father.
I was very much interested in the shooting methods, angles, and other techniques from the beginning. There was no dramatic conversation or acting scene throughout the movie, and I thought it was realistic. I was moved by the actor’s subtle expressions of their inner feelings. Sometimes I was confused and surprised at the scenes which had a play within a play. It was due to the director’s brilliant skill. They didn’t use background music very much and it went very calmly but had a certain drama. I was relieved by the ending in which everyone was well.
In Japan, we celebrate the Girls Festival on March 3rd, so I displayed Hina dolls which I received when my daughter was born. A little more than thirty years ago, my daughter came into the world and since then we had a relationship of mother and child and I am really grateful for that.
2026/03/01
