When Dad was home, it was never quiet, even when he wrote, music thumped the floorboards, but his trips started lasting longer and longer. And when he left for good, the house got lighter, the noise between the parents disappeared, but the house missed all his other sounds.
Sentimental Value (2025)
NARRATOR'S VOICE
A screenplay character in Sentimental Value (2025).
- lines
- 8
- words
- 263
- scenes
- 7
- dialogue
- 2.4%
- avg words / line
- 33
- shortest / longest
- 15 / 48
Sample dialogue
When Dad was home, it was never quiet, even when he wrote, music thumped the floorboards, but his trips started lasting longer and longer. And when he left for good, the house got lighter, the noise between the parents disappeared, but the house missed all his other sounds.
scene 18 — INT. FAMILY HOUSE (APPROX. 2000) - DAYAfter the liberation, Karin returned to Norway as Karin Borg, wife of the Swede Lennart.
scene 51 — INT. FAMILY HOUSE (PRESENT DAY, WINTER) - DAYSix months later, Sissel was pregnant. They got married three weeks before Nora was born in December 1987. When her little sister Agnes was born, they became a family of four.
scene 64 — INT. FAMILY HOUSE (EARLY 90S) - DAYIt was hard to describe what had made such a strong impression... Was it her grandmother's testimony, how dryly and unsentimentally she had described it? Or was it that she was just one of many victims who testified in the same folder?
scene 153, source scene 152 — INT. AGNES AND EVEN'S APARTMENT - DAYHer teacher gave her an A, and her father had loved it. She dug out the essay when she was looking for a monologue for her auditions at the Theatre Academy, but was disappointed because it seemed so unemotional. She therefore chose Nina's monologue from "The Seagull" instead.
scene 19 — INT. FAMILY HOUSE, NORA’S CHILDHOOD ROOM (2008) - DAY
Bookends
The police report on the suicide fifteen years later was thin, there were no pictures, but her father's name was there... He hadn't been interrogated, probably because he had only been 7 years old when it happened.