‘Sylvie’s Love’ Went For “Classic Chemistry” In Throwback Film With A Twist – Contenders TV

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Amazon flipped for Sylvie’s Love when the indie film played Sundance. In many ways it’s a throwback to the kind of romantic, sun-kissed movies Hollywood regularly once made, but with a twist.

This one starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha has two Black leads doing the romancing, and outside of less than a handful of films in the 1950s and ’60s time period where it is set, that never happened in the Hollywood of that era.Thompson and director-writer-producer Eugene Ashe joined Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event to talk about why now the time is ripe for Sylvie’s Love.“You know, I’m a fan, like everyone else, of the films from that time, movies like Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and of course, you know, the Douglas Sirk