Writer-director Eugene Ashe was a successful musician before he started making films, a background evident in every exquisite frame of Sylvie’s Love. Not just because male lead Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha) is a saxophonist and the movie features the best jazz soundtrack since ’Round Midnight, and not just because female lead Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) begins the film working in her dad’s record store and has an encyclopedic knowledge of music and knows how to tailor recommendations to each customer. The musical influence goes beyond these considerations to inform every texture and detail of Ashe’s late ’50s-early ’60s set drama, a gloriously […]
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The post “We Have to Get a 65-Piece Orchestra with Strings”: Eugene Ashe on Sylvie’s Love first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 5/18/2021
- by Jim Hemphill
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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