It Starts On The Page: Read The Script For Eugene Ashe’s Romance Movie ‘Sylvie’s Love’

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Eugene Ashe’s Sylvie’s Love was a gift from Amazon when the streamer released it during the December holidays. Aperiod old-school romancer starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha, the film was a nod to the Douglas Sirk-style romance movies of the 1950s and ’60s with one major difference: the leads are Black, which they almost never were during the period.“I think Paris Blues was really the only one that had any Black leads at all, and if you look at the album covers from that time and you look at the music from that time, we were very much in play,” Ashe told Deadline recently during our Contenders TV panel. “But generally speaking, when we show that era with Black folks depicted in cinema, we’re primarily focusing on the civil rights