Sentimentality meets Realism in Helen Schjerfbeck's paintings and in Joachim Trier’s movie Sentimental Value.
“I’ve been living … a great deal in mymemories lately,” the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck wrote in 1937.
Hers was a nostalgia perhaps born from relief. That year, the success of Schjerfbeck’s … [+10938 chars]
