sentimental value

British  

noun

1. the value of an article in terms of its sentimental associations for a particular person

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Example Sentences

But the real star of “Sentimental Value” is the family’s gorgeous dragestil architectural-style home, which has stayed in the family for decades, absorbing both the celebrations and traumas of its generations of inhabitants.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Sentimental Value” is darker, subtler work than “The Worst Person in the World,” less receptive to the viewer’s embrace but ultimately the richer for it; it is the film released this year that I most yearned to see a second time.

From Los Angeles Times

In films such as “The Worst Person in the World,” “Armand,” “A Different Man” and now Joachim Trier’s sublime family drama “Sentimental Value,” the Norwegian actor, 38, has spent her last four-and-a-half years onscreen flirting recklessly, laughing uncontrollably, screaming in rage and dissolving in tears, all with an utterly unpredictable vitality that has made her perhaps the most exciting performer working today.

From Los Angeles Times

One of my most striking discoveries of this story, after years of interviews in which actors insisted that their character was “all there on the page,” was how much of “Sentimental Value” as it appears onscreen was not — not least the sisters’ bedtop embrace at the emotional climax of the film, which became its defining image, and which Reinsve credits to co-star Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas.

From Los Angeles Times

For as tender and quietly introspective as Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” eventually becomes, the Norwegian writer-director’s latest film opens in a frenzy.

From Salon