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Review: Justine Triet's 'Sibyl' is a sly, sexy and beautifully acted comic thriller

Sibyl is a shrink, a writer, a singer, an acting coach, a sister, a mother, a dreamer and a drunk - though not, for the most part, all at the same time. She contains multitudes, not unlike the ancient Greek oracles from whom she is nominally descended, and perhaps (a big perhaps) like Sybil Dorset, the pseudonym assigned to one of the world's most famous dissociative identity disorder cases. Neither point of reference seems entirely lost on "Sibyl," a smart and absorbing new French comedy that initially unfolds like a series of psychotherapy sessions and

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