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Sylvie's Love

2020

Eugene Ashe

Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Eva Longoria ...

6.2

538

Drama Years after their summer romance comes to an end, an aspiring television producer and a talented musician cross paths, only to find their feelings for each other never changed. With their careers taking them in different directions, they must choose what matters most.

	Author	Review
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"Pretty good (...) Possibly the most wholesome film since the lifting of the Hays Code to feature a professional jazz musician as one of its protagonists"	POS
United Kingdom	Benjamin Lee The Guardian	"Electric chemistry between Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha ignites this loving, lovely tribute to Hollywood melodramas (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"A deliriously old-fashioned, naively plotted romance (...) they don’t make ’em like this any more"	NEU
United States	Ben Pearson SlashFilm	"An exquisite piece of old-school filmmaking (...) [It] transport us into a sort of cinematic Twilight Zone where such a movie would have been placed right alongside contemporaries like 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'"	POS
United States	John Fink The Film Stage	"Lush and elegant with beautiful performances, the jazzy period melodrama 'Sylvie’s Love' plays many notes exceptionally well. It’s a shame its plotting and pacing doesn’t keep up with its star power"	NEU
United States	Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"An unabashed throwback to the melodramas of Douglas Sirk (...) a film that's best taken as a welcome corrective, with the kind of grandiose emotional scenes that will always make for movie magic."	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Tessa Thompson shines (...) As out of sync as you might get with the way that 'Sylvie’s Love' riffs on its themes, you never want Ashe and his band to stop playing."	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Desire and dreams meet beautifully in 'Sylvie’s Love,' an old-fashioned romance for 21st-century hearts. Modestly scaled yet emotionally expansive"	POS
United States	Sara Stewart New York Post	"Tessa Thompson radiates retro glamour in 'Sylvie’s Love', an old-Hollywood throwback with a modern twist: its predominantly black cast (...) His dialogue is heartfelt and realistic (...) Well-told love story (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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