Sentimental Value (2025)

Sentimental Value (2025)

When a father offers a role instead of an apology — is it an attempt at closeness, or a way to control a chaotic life?

Topics for discussion:

• how distance forms between adult children and parents; what family estrangement is, and why it can be not “revenge” but a way to preserve oneself;

• grief and meaning: how loss reshapes the family contract, why objects, homes, and memories become “anchors” — and sometimes a battlefield;

• when art heals and when it exploits: who “owns” family truth — the story vs. a person’s right not to be material;

• what forgiveness really is — and whether forgiveness is necessary at all.