Sibyl

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Sibyl

Released Sep 11, 2020

1h 40m

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A psychotherapist pursues her first passion and becomes a writer.

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Intriguing yet uneven, Sibyl is just about held together by its leads, but too often pits great performances against frustrating filmmaking.

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Josh Kupecki

Austin Chronicle

A mess Sibyl is, although at times it is a glorious one.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 25, 2020

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Peter Rainer

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

It's amusing, but it's not terribly novel... It's very well-acted, funny, and Sandra Hüller, who plays the director of the film within the film, is hilarious.

Sep 15, 2020

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

Virginie Efira gives a tour-de-force performance.

Sep 15, 2020

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Juan Pablo Russo

EscribiendoCine

Triet guides us through this journey, skilfully utilizing Sybil's subjectivity to weave a plot where comedy and drama coexist in a subtle dance. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 8/10

Aug 17, 2023

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Evan Morgan

In Review Online

Triet makes movies to assure us that our lives aren't always the shambles that we pretend them to be.

Jun 5, 2021

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Loren King

Newport This Week (RI)

Sibyl balances romantic thriller and delicious drama with comic overtones about movie-making.

Nov 21, 2020

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Cindy A

Someone wrote a review saying that you shouldn't watch this movie unless you're familiar with French films. Don't get too close to this, I think it said. I think that's fair. However, I think if you understand and enjoy French farces and humor, this is a subtle contemporary take on one. There's also really excellent acting by Adele Exarchopoulos, and Virginie Efira is really compelling to watch. There's also some borderline soft porn sex scenes, in case you were going to watch this with kids in the next room or something. I had tried to watch the French comedy Fear City --and to turn it off and watched this instead which gave me lots of opportunity to laugh and say to no one "what is she doing???" Oh and Sandra Huller just steals all the scenes she's in.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/26/24

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Aldo G

Because I so thoroughly enjoyed Justine Triet's Anatomy of A Fall I've started to screen her previous films. Sibyl was the first and I won't get to another until I re-screen this 2019 feature that she also wrote and directed, because it's left a trance over me that I can't quite shake off yet.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/24

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Marlene A

It never gets deep enough into the characters to understand the reason they are so emotionally troubled. Sibyl's flash backs to her previous lover and excessive sex scenes don't do much to explain anything really. It's all over the place and immensely boring.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/28/23

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Audience Member

Amazing movie, amazing actors, amazing story, amazing play between sound and silence, I recommend 100%

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Audience Member

Absurdic from the beginning, but very intense. Become erupted at the end.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Audience Member

Remarkably works as a disjointed black comedy largely by the efforts of Efira is is magnetic despite the many foibles of her character

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Synopsis

A psychotherapist pursues her first passion and becomes a writer.

Director: Justine Triet
Producer: David Thion, Philippe Martin, Genevieve Lemal
Screenwriter: Justine Triet, Arthur Harari
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: Scope Pictures, Page 114, Les Films Pelleas, Les Films de Pierre, France 2 Cinéma, Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 11, 2020, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 13, 2020
Runtime: 1h 40m

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