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When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father's record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professiona... Read allWhen a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father's record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father's record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 6 wins & 28 nominations total
Lotus Plummer
- Michelle
- (as Lotus Simone Plummer)
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Sylvie's Love is a sweet love story. It exists in a lovely, technicolor world better than our own, but set in our past. Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha set the screen on fire. The soundtrack roars with some of the best music on earth. It understands it's era and genre. It feels properly old-fashioned. If you thought this film was too basic and cliched, you missed the point entirely.
An honest movie, for a lovely and peaceful evening dedicated to love. I confess to having watched this film lured by the musical aspect and 1950s settings. I am a record collector and I warn jazz lovers that the part about the record store and concerts is not predominant. No matter, here we are talking about a love story with ups and downs, where in the end... well, it's easy to imagine how it ends, but I won't be the one to spoil it. I don't think I would have watched this movie without the lure of its setting, but in the end I did and so, here I am reviewing it. I would say it's decent, nothing too demanding.
Not sure what others saw or even talking about for that matter but this movie was GOOD like any film there's room for improvement HOWEVER not only was I interested the whole time I like the fact that I saw familiar faces from films gone by to the current faces of Hollywood especially Black Hollywood if you will AND to see the description hold true throughout the film was the most impressive thing to me It was about Sylie's love and her love interest course in life even watching with a open mind I couldn't gather anything predictable but hey to each its own I liked this film a lot
10willied4
I just loved this movie. Finally a good,interesting story of a black man,black women and love. I will watch this movie over and over again. Ms. Thompson was just fantastic and of course her handsome leading man was tender and loving. Let have more of this please and you can include the civil rights movement it would just tell the truth about what was going on during this period.
Sweet love story with twist that in real life you would not want. I love both the main characters demeanors refresh and calm.
Did you know
- TriviaNnamdi Asomugha learned to play saxophone for the role.
- GoofsAt the record shop, if you look closely, LPs have OJC catalog numbers. these were reissued LPs released by Original Jazz Classics in the 80s till presently. this movie was set in 1962. original LPs released in the 60s did not bear any of these OJC catalog numbers.
- Quotes
Sylvie Parker: Life's too short to waste time on things you don't absolutely love.
- ConnectionsEdited into Film School Friday: 'Sylvie's Love' (2021)
- SoundtracksNearness of You
From the feature film Romance in the Dark (1938)
Words by Ned Washington
Music by Hoagy Carmichael
Performed by George Shearing, Nancy Wilson and George Shearing Quintet
Courtesy of Blue Note Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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- Runtime
- 1h 56m(116 min)
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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