In a year full of fear, uncertainty, and tragedy, romantics have had little to celebrate, and so the timeless love story depicted in Sylvie’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.