Volodymyr Zelensky outshone the galaxy of stars assembled at the Cannes Film Festival after he addressed the opening night crowd of actors and filmmakers
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky outshone the galaxy of stars assembled at the Cannes Film Festival after he addressed the opening night crowd of actors and filmmakers, delivering an emotional plea on behalf of his war-torn country, reports Variety .
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky outshone the galaxy of stars assembled at the Cannes Film Festival after he addressed the
Film Review: All you need is ‘Sylvie’s Love’
Eugene Ashe s blissfully romantic film starring Tessa Thompson is set in an idealized world but the emotions are real.
Cary Darling December 16, 2020Updated: December 21, 2020, 11:22 am
Nnamdi Asomugha and Tessa Thompson in Sylvie s Love Photo: Nicola Goode/Amazon Studios / Courtesy of Amazon Studios
Director/writer Eugene Ashe’s “Sylvie’s Love” is set among African Americans in mid-20th-century New York, but any mention of discrimination or the growing civil rights movement is pushed to the periphery. That might seem unrealistic the film spans 1957-1963, years of “I Have a Dream,” Freedom Riders and Bull Connor but this swooning soap opera is less August Wilson and more Douglas Sirk, the white director of 1950s-era films with such eye-grabbing titles as “Magnificent Obsession,” “All That Heaven Allows” and “The Tarnished Angels.”