Sylvie’s Love
Sylvie’s Love is a polished, whimsical love story set in the racially turbulent 50s and 60s.
Sylvie’s Love is a polished, whimsical love story set in the racially turbulent 50s and 60s.
This bittersweet movie foreshadows current events and the discussion about policing in black neighborhoods.
The cinematography is noteworthy, the war footage engrossing, and with actual, original period clips from America’s turbulent 60s and 70s spliced in, the feel is authentic, if not plaintive.
Clumsy transitions mar an urban crime drama whose whole turns out to be far less than the sum of its parts.
It achieves nearly perfect pitch in its portrayal of LA area hood culture…