Direction: Eugene Ashe
Country: USA
Tessa Thompson (Dear White People; Thor: Ragnarok) and former NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha (Crown Heights), who also co-produced, star in Sylvie’s Love, a romantic tale that, transpiring passion and charm in its initial phase, becomes nearly strangled by melodramatic pressures just when both the emotional maturity and professional responsibilities of the characters emerge.
Director Eugene Ashe directs with warmth from a script he wrote, in which a jazz musician, Robert (Asomugha), falls in love with his boss' daughter, Sylvie (Thompson). The inconvenience, though, is that Sylvie is engaged to a well-positioned man. After a five-year separation, they run into each other again, abandoning themselves to the fickle wind of destiny and deciding to work diligently against difficulties. Still, all the domestic conflicts are exclusively depicted as emotional by avoiding any sort of verbal confrontation. This maintains a lightness in the storytelling that, refusing to take the magic of love out of the air, doesn’t always cause a profound impression.
With all the schmaltzy deceptions arriving by the end, Sylvie’s Love may still find its place in the hearts of those looking for undemanding romantic dramas.
