Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterAmazon Prime Video subscribers will find “Sylvie’s Love” under their trees this year.The Tessa Thompson romance has landed a Dec.
25 global premiere date on Prime, following the streaming giant’s acquisition of the project at January’s Sundance Film Festival.Written and directed by Eugene Ashe, the film currently has a 100% fresh critics score from Rotten Tomatoes and was sold in the high seven figures, Variety previously reported.Set in the late 1950s, Thompson’s Sylvie dreams of a career in the budding world of television while she helps out around her family’s New York City record store and counts the days until her fiancé returns from war.A handsome saxophonist named Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha) interrupts.
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