In a year full of fear, uncertainty, and tragedy, romantics have had little to celebrate, and so the timeless love story depicted inSylvie’s Love, (released December 23) rounded out the year with a hopefulness 2020 rarely delivered.
Minor spoilers ahead!
The year is 1957, and newly-engaged Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) is spending the summer working in her father’s record store, where she meets new hire and aspiring Jazz saxophonist Robert Halloway (Nnamdi Asomugha). What follows is a classic love story that proves itself stronger than distance and time, as the right romance meets over and over in search of its right time.