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Counting down the best cinematic achievements of the calendar year.
Eliza Scanlen ponders the Australian sky from her backyard in Babyteeth.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: the only people who want to make 2020 longer. This past summer, the body that gives out the Oscars made the absurd and illogical decision that this year will end in February instead of December, so that films released two weeks after Valentine’s Day will still be eligible for the Academy Awards for this year. They probably want traditional Oscar bait pictures to be released, but most such prestige dramas have already come out, on streaming if not in theaters.
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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?