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( ThyBlackMan.com) 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. It’s the summer of ’57. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), a twentysomething, works in her dad’s (Lance Reddick, John Wick) small Harlem shop, Mr. Jay’s Records. Though she tries not to show it, she is smitten the day Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha) walks in looking for a job. They spar verbally. Flirt. She is bent on becoming a TV producer. He, a tenor sax player in the jazz group the Dickie Brewster Quartet, wants a solo career. They’re young and ambitious. ....
Sylvie s Love Is a Delightful, Timeless Love Story Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha shine in this romance written and directed by Eugene Ashe. Dec 28, 2020 It’s no secret that most romances made during Hollywood s Golden Age centered around white people, with Black actors mostly relegated to films about race. Today, movies about Black people set during the Civil Rights era still largely concern marches, police riots, and lunch counter sit-ins, with the quieter, equally important everyday moments pushed to the background. Sylvie’s Love asks, what more intimate stories would’ve existed from that time, had Black filmmakers had the opportunity to tell those stories? ....
Starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha, Sylvie s Love is a delightful throwback to the late 1950s and early 1960s as it tells an old-fashioned love story of a young woman working at her father s record store in Harlem who meets an aspiring saxophone player. The film initially premiered at Sundance in January before it officially made its way to Amazon Prime Video on Dec. 23. Just like the story and its characters, the movie has a beautiful soundtrack to match. Composer Fabrice Lecomte is responsible for the majority of the music heard in the film, and in an interview with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival earlier this month, he revealed that all the songs were exclusively composed for the film. ....
23 Dec 2020 A period drama with Black people at its centre is usually a guarantee that race and bigotry will be the dominant factors of the story. There is value in the Selmas, of course, but it’s disheartening that there hasn’t been nearly as many movies set way back when that focus on Black characters pursuing love, happiness and career dreams. That’s a big reason why Sylvie’s Love a charming sophomore effort from writer-director Eugene Ashe that puts the emphasis on a swoon-worthy romance to joyous effect feels so refreshing. The two star-crossed lovers in question are the titular Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) and Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha, likeably understated), a reserved but brilliant saxophonist in a jazz quartet. The latter gets a job at the record store where Sylvie works just to be near her, and their shared musical passions give way to cute flirtations that quickly blossom into something more. That we’re rooting for the couple from the outset ....
When Sylvie’s Love premiered at Sundance in January, the world was a different place but writer-director Eugene Ashe’s film takes viewers back even further than early 2020. “I think it’s sort of like a portal,” producer and star Tessa Thompson says of the dreamy midcentury melodrama. “And it’s a movie about love! So in a weird way, maybe it’s the perfect time [for it].” Thompson stars as Sylvie, a young woman living in New York City in the 1950s whose life is upended the fateful summer she falls for jazz saxophonist Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha). As Sylvie dreams of becoming a TV producer and Robert pursues his music across the world, their paths diverge, but when they meet again after years apart, even having grown up into different people with incompatible lives, their connection remains as strong as ever. ....