When she received the essay assignment to write a story as if one were an object, she immediately knew that she would choose to be their house.
Sentimental Value (2025)
NARRATOR
A screenplay character in Sentimental Value (2025).
- lines
- 34
- words
- 799
- scenes
- 27
- dialogue
- 7.2%
- avg words / line
- 24
- shortest / longest
- 5 / 56
Sample dialogue
One summer when Gustav was visiting and Aunt Edith had had one too many drinks, she gave him advice he later loved retelling: "Fuck as much as you can, men and women, whoever wants to, life is short." Edith would never have used the word 'fuck' like that, but the sentiment behind it was probably correct.
scene 58 — EXT. FAMILY HOUSE (CIRCA 1965, SUMMER) - DAYGustav's version was more extravagant:
scene 62 — INT. FAMILY HOUSE (1986, FALL) - EVENINGShe wrote that it was as if the house was still sinking, collapsing - just in very slow motion - and that the entire time her family had lived there was just a split second in mid-air.
scene 8 — INT. FAMILY HOUSE (APPROX. 2000)The room on the first floor was just called the library - it was rarely in use, and the eldest daughter of the house, Karin, got to use it freely to listen to music and hang out with friends...
scene 44 — INT. FAMILY HOUSE (1930S, SUMMER) - DAYIf anyone complained, Edith turned up the volume. She was sure one of the neighbors had ratted on her sister during the war.
scene 57 — INT. FAMILY HOUSE (1965) - NIGHT
Bookends
Nora moved out the year she turned 20. Agnes stayed until she started studying in Bergen in 2011.