Sylvie’s Love Takes Contemporary Chanel Back to the ‘60s ELLE 12/29/2020 Fawnia Soo Hoo © Nicola Goode Costume designer Phoenix Mellow took inspiration from Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s for Eugene Ashe s Tessa Thompson-Nnamdi Asomugha romance.
Initially dismissed as “women’s movies” (or, even more condescendingly, “weepies”), the work of German director Douglas Sirk explored love, life, and the career aspirations of women protagonists in the ‘50s and ‘60s, and later, were lauded as progressive proto-feminist fare. Sundance darling
Sylvie’s Love travels back in time to this melodramatic Sirkian oeuvre, with writer-director Eugene Ashe rewriting history to give Black stories and a majority-Black cast representation in the lush romantic canon of Old Hollywood.
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By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer
December 25, 2020
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It’s summertime in Harlem in 1957 when we get to know the beautiful souls at the center of “Sylvie’s Love.” Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) works at the register of her father’s record store but dreams of a job in television. Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha) is a struggling saxophonist who spots her, and a help wanted sign, through the store window. Their attraction is immediate, but it’s not the only factor at play here. Anyone who’s ever seen a romantic drama knows that life will continue getting in the way of Sylvie and Robert’s love for the half decade we know them.