Sibyl

Name: Sibyl
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: September 11, 2020
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 59
Cast: Ad, Adrien Bellemare, Arthur Harari, Gaspard Ulliel, Jeane Arra-Bellanger

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Music Box Films | Release Date (Streaming): September 11, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Ad, Adrien Bellemare, Arthur Harari, Gaspard Ulliel, Jeane Arra-Bellanger, Laure Calamy, Natascha Wiese, Niels Schneider, Paul Hamy, Sandra Hüller, Virginie Efira

Summary: Sibyl follows a psychotherapist (Virginie Efira) who decides to quit her practice and return to writing instead. As Sibyl starts dropping patients, she begins to struggle with excess time and a lack of inspiration–until she gets a call from Margot (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a young actress wrapped up in a dramatic affair with her costar, IgorSibyl follows a psychotherapist (Virginie Efira) who decides to quit her practice and return to writing instead. As Sibyl starts dropping patients, she begins to struggle with excess time and a lack of inspiration–until she gets a call from Margot (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a young actress wrapped up in a dramatic affair with her costar, Igor (Gaspard Ulliel), who happens to be married to the film’s director (Sandra Hüller). Becoming further enmeshed in Margot’s life, Sibyl starts to blur past and present, fiction with reality, and the personal with the professional as she begins to use Margot’s life as source material for her novel.… Expand

Director: Justine Triet

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Lorry Kikta

Oct 24, 2019

There are visually stunning scenes throughout, but the acting and writing are the pièce de résistance of Sibyl and should be exactly why you put this film on your radar as one to watch from 2019. It’s certainly going on my end of year favorite list. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Sep 10, 2019

Justine Triet is less committed to some make-believe realism than she is to the tricks that memory and language can play on us. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Carlos Aguilar

Sep 11, 2020

Rich in impulsive sensuality and knowing humor, the film captivates even as it stumbles through too many subplots. It’s a tad convoluted but never dull. Read full review

Ty Burr

Sep 24, 2020

Aided by Simon Beaufils’s luxuriant wide-screen photography and Laurent Sénéchal’s alternately swooning and plinking suspense music, “Sibyl” is a vacation for the senses and a gathering headache for the brain. The screenplay, by Triet and Arthur Harari (David H. Pickering supplied the English-language dialogue spoken on the island’s film set), piles a lot on the unstable heroine’s plate and then adds even more. Read full review

The Film Stage Ed Frankl

May 25, 2019

The final third, especially, is by-the-numbers plotting. It’s a pity, as the film starts off promising some interesting overarching themes, especially Sibyl’s underhand ethics of mining her psychological examinations for fiction. As a metaphor for artistic invention, it’s an interesting, but unsuccessful one. Read full review

The Playlist Bradley Warren

May 29, 2019

A flimsy, unremarkable story of obsession. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 25, 2019

Fundamentally, Sybil is not funny because it is not convincing, and some of the acting is not of the highest order. Efira’s “drunk” turn is something she may wish to omit from her showreel. Read full review

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