Sibyl

This movie is much more confusing than it needed to be which makes the immersion in the story very challenging at the start without any big payoff for the effort. It's just a way to try and make the movie seem more interesting than in reality is. Well shot and acted.

This is quite an interesting film and, unlike some other reviewers here, I really enjoyed the central performance. Disturbingly like Jennifer Lawrence at times, Efira handles the variety of tones and context very well, I think - despite the film deliberately taking her all over the place emotionally. I used to think that "Blue is the Warmest Colour" was the most snot-laden film I had ever seen, courtesy of Adele's copious crying, and she is well-chosen to deliver similar over-the-top distress here. In contrast, I didn't much like the director character, and for me the men were a bit too interchangeable.

Worth a look though.

I can't recall seeing a film with so many good and great elements: cinematography, acting, a good deal of great dialogue, that was assembled into such a let down of total experience. It is like observing a kid who is smart, has everything, goes to he best schools -- yet goes nowhere in life.

I don't know where this project went wrong. Was it deep flaws from the beginning and they went ahead without resolving them, or was it some kind of creative fight in post production, perhaps about comedy vs drama as the goal in editing?

David Lynch-esque, in my street, French: Sybil, you are... a psychoanalytic romance, between a former novelist and actresses, with a sharing of the script, passion, patience, recordings... with perplexity, the unfolding of the staged puzzle, without genius, from the whisper in the ear of the complaining patient, it must be... it's dizzying, moments of interest, I complain=ridicule.

Actors can be ... difficult. But Psychotherapists can be insane too ... wait what am I trying to say here again? I guess I am trying to make a point ... like the movie is. Kidding aside, people in general can be tough to read and even tougher to "cure" - especially when the one doing the curing has issues of her own.

A strange little movie that can, but that also is strange to say the least. You have to suspend your disbelief quite a lot and go with the flow. Having a love for making movies and understanding what can go on behind the scenes (it almost feels like someone is doing their own curing by doing the movie - the writer, the director, producers ... all of the above and more?) ... Interesting aspects and quite a lot of sexual tension! And one of the best drunk acting performances put on film! A strange drama/thriller, that will appeal to some and will annoy others - but it is very well done!