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Sylvie's Love
Directed by
Eugene Ashe
PG-13
2020
1h 54m
Drama
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Romance
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6.8
94%
76%
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When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father's record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.
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Cast of Sylvie's Love
Tessa Thompson
Sylvie
Nnamdi Asomugha
Robert
Aja Naomi King
Mona
Jemima Kirke
Countess
Tone Bell
Dickie Brewster
Alano Miller
Lacy
Erica Gimpel
Eunice
Lance Reddick
Herbert
Wendi McLendon-Covey
Lucy
Eva Longoria
Carmen
Regé-Jean Page
Chico
Ryan Michelle Bathe
Kate
MC Lyte
Mikki
John Magaro
Sid
Tucker Smallwood
Dr. Parker
Ron Funches
Tank
Hayley McCarthy
Sarah Evans
Lorenzo Hugues
Melvin Carmichael
Greg Eagles
Dewitt
Nina Ashe
Evelyn
Windi Washington
Blue Morocco Club Patron (uncredited)
Jahdai Pickett
Sonny
Sylvie's Love Ratings & Reviews
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Every element of Ashe's film is swoon-worthy, from Fabrice Lecomte's lush score and Phoenix Mellow's gorgeous costumes to Declan Quinn's exquisite cinematography and Asomugha's and Thompson's luminous performances.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
That you're seeing this melodrama with Asomugha and Thompson in the leads-something you wouldn't have seen when these types of movies were in vogue-is part of the point.'
New York Post
Sara Stewart
"Sylvie's" is a love letter to the delights of a well-told love story.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
This is more than retro, it's a re-imagination of the past, of the stories and role models that could have been available to Black audiences (and white ones) but weren't. Better late than never.
Newsday
Robert Levin
Even if the contours of the story feel familiar, it is rare to encounter them shaped and conveyed with such a keen sense of how they should be told to achieve a maximum emotional impact.
indieWire
David Ehrlich
Ashe's film gets a bit too flat for the big finale to arrive with the oomph that it should. And yet, 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.
Associated Press
Lindsey Bahr
Thompson and Asomugha have undeniable chemistry and are best when in each other's company on screen, but there's a bit too much going on around them.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Like the great Douglas Sirk melodramas... "Sylvie's Love" is unabashedly sentimental and just gorgeous to behold - but the difference here is the terrific ensemble cast is primarily Black and Latinx.
NPR
Aisha Harris
A stylishly moody period drama riffing on love and desire both romantic and professional.
Insider
Candice Frederick
Sylvie's humanity is never marginalized. We feel her joy, her pitfalls, and most importantly her love. We see the same for Robert as well.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Amy Nicholson
There are bits in here that I thought were a bit clunky... But it has such a heart that I really enjoyed watching this film.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The pleasure of this one, partly set in a jazz milieu, is its embrace of all the conventions -- not just the melodrama and the star-crossed lovers but careerist ambition, emergent feminism, cultural pretension.
National Newspaper Publishers Association
Dwight Brown
It's love at first sight. That's true for the couple in this romantic period film and for audiences who will be transfixed by the stunningly beautiful footage.
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Robert Daniels
Sylvie's Love isn't a knock-off of If Beale Could Talk. The romance charts its own distinct path.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Desire and dreams meet beautifully in "Sylvie's Love," an old-fashioned romance for 21st-century hearts.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
The kind of sumptuous saga of aching, star-crossed romance that Ross Hunter might have produced in his 1960s glory days if Hollywood had been ready to populate such a film with an all-Black cast.
Slant Magazine
Pat Brown
The film never finds the spark that would imbue the love affair at its center with a sense of passion or urgency.
Los Angeles Times
Carlos Aguilar
The classically conceived romantic saga, spanning several years in late 1950s and early 1960s Harlem, offers a comforting and velvety cinematic texture even if it is not extraordinary from a narrative standpoint.
Pajiba
Kristy Puchko
Sylvie's Love is a radiant romance, full of verve and visual splendor.
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
Love's most radical act may be the simple fact of its Blackness - that the faces at the center of the screen are ones that for so many decades we'd mostly see only in the margins of a movie like this, or not at all.
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