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  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 41 m

Summary Sibyl follows a psychotherapist (Virginie Efira) who decides to quit her practice and return to writing instead. As Sibyl starts dropping patients, she begins to struggle with excess time and a lack of inspiration–until she gets a call from Margot (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a young actress wrapped up in a dramatic affair with her costar, Igo...

Directed By: Justine Triet

Written By: Arthur Harari, David H. Pickering, Justine Triet

  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Music Box Films
  • 1 h 41 m

Sibyl

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 16 Critic Reviews
59
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary Sibyl follows a psychotherapist (Virginie Efira) who decides to quit her practice and return to writing instead. As Sibyl starts dropping patients, she begins to struggle with excess time and a lack of inspiration–until she gets a call from Margot (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a young actress wrapped up in a dramatic affair with her costar, Igo...

Directed By: Justine Triet

Written By: Arthur Harari, David H. Pickering, Justine Triet

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 16 Critic Reviews
59
56% Positive
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44% Mixed
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 16 Critic Reviews
59
56% Positive
9 Reviews
44% Mixed
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Oct 24, 2019
There are visually stunning scenes throughout, but the acting and writing are the pièce de résistance of Sibyl and should be exactly why you put this film on your radar as one to watch from 2019. It’s certainly going on my end of year favorite list.
By Lorry Kikta FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 9, 2020
Despite the therapeutic functions ascribed to art by both its creators and its audiences, very few of us actually want to play the therapist. Triet does, handling her characters with an almost diagnostic detachment.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW
70
May 25, 2019
Triet’s chic, blackly comic psychodrama piles up bad decisions like so many profiteroles in a croquembouche, admiring the teetering spectacle of its chaos as it goes.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
63
Sep 24, 2020
Aided by Simon Beaufils’s luxuriant wide-screen photography and Laurent Sénéchal’s alternately swooning and plinking suspense music, “Sibyl” is a vacation for the senses and a gathering headache for the brain. The screenplay, by Triet and Arthur Harari (David H. Pickering supplied the English-language dialogue spoken on the island’s film set), piles a lot on the unstable heroine’s plate and then adds even more.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
58
May 25, 2019
The final third, especially, is by-the-numbers plotting. It’s a pity, as the film starts off promising some interesting overarching themes, especially Sibyl’s underhand ethics of mining her psychological examinations for fiction. As a metaphor for artistic invention, it’s an interesting, but unsuccessful one.
By Ed Frankl FULL REVIEW
50
May 25, 2019
Sibyl is far less than the sum of its parts, and never manages to shake off a heavy tone which consistently threatens to capsize even the rare funny interludes.
By Fionnuala Halligan FULL REVIEW
40
May 25, 2019
Fundamentally, Sybil is not funny because it is not convincing, and some of the acting is not of the highest order. Efira’s “drunk” turn is something she may wish to omit from her showreel.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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5.7
43% Positive
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43% Mixed
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14% Negative
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14% Negative
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Production Company Les Films de Pierre, France 2 Cinéma, Page 114, Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, Scope Pictures, Le Pacte, Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), La Région Île-de-France, Cinémage 13, Cofinova 15, Cinéventure 4, Les Films Pelléas, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge
Release Date Sep 11, 2020
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.musicboxfilms.com/film/sibyl/
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Awards

International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 3 Nominations
Seville European Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 2 Nominations

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