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.