Working my way through the ten Academy Award nominated movies, I watched “Sentimental Value” last night. Even accounting for the law of recency, I can say that it is the best of the 9 movies that I have seen so far. I can make my selection now, because I am not planning on watching the tenth movie Frankenstein. Think I have seen that one enough to know what it is about.

Sentimental Value is slow, very slow but well worth it. The dad, the two sisters and the American actress in it, are all nominated for Oscars and were excellent. Overall, the movie has 9 Academy Award nominations. By comparison, the favorites to win Best Picture, Sinners and One Battle After Another are up for 13 and 11 awards respectively. (For a complete nominees listing click here.)

The ending track to Sentimental Value “Cannock Chase” did a nice job summing up things. Found myself thinking as much about the song as I did the movie.