Screening note: This digital screening is available to view between 10:00am PT on Sunday, October 11, and 10:00am PT on Wednesday, October 14, and is available to ticket buyers and passholders within the United States.
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It’s the summer of 1957 in New York City, and love is in the air! As the music swells and hearts swoon, gifted saxophonist Robert spies restless Sylvie as she works the register at her father’s record store. Sylvie’s engaged, but Robert’s already smitten… And thus begins their love story, igniting a passion that is tested in many ways (most acutely by time), but never falters. Writer-director Eugene Ashe’s sophomore feature is a sweeping romantic story, calling to mind Hollywood’s Golden Age but with one key difference: the leads are Black. Starring Tessa Thompson (Sorry to Bother You; Little Woods, MVFF41) as Sylvie and Nnamdi Asomugha (Crown Heights) as Robert, Sylvie’s Love opens up the timeless tales of love and success to new voices. With its fantastic soundtrack and stunning costumes, the film creates a world easy to disappear into, so easy that you may not ever want to leave.