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    Let 'Sylvie's Love' Wrap You In All Its Goodness

    Eugene Ashe's romance is a refreshing throwback to Classic Hollywood, starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha.
    by Aisha Harris Dec 24, 2020 3 minutes
    Tessa Thompson as Sylvie and Nnamdi Asomugha as Robert in <em>Sylvie's Love.</em>

    There are films that invite the viewer in by emanating an energy so lush and warm that you long to continue living in that world even after the runtime has ended. I get this feeling whenever I watch one of Douglas Sirk's 1950s melodramas that, despite holding up a mirror to serious themes like racism, classism and Puritanical social mores, offer a kind of comfort and splendor in their Technicolor richness and grounded translations of mid-century American pathos.

    That same energy radiates through Eugene Ashe's , a stylishly moody period

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