2019 Directed by Justine Triet
Sibyl, a jaded psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. But her newest patient Margot, a troubled up-and-coming actress, proves to be a source of inspiration that is far too tempting. Fascinated almost to the point of obsession, Sibyl becomes more and more involved in Margot’s tumultuous life, reviving volatile memories that bring her face to face with her past.
寂寞诊疗室, Sibyl - Therapie zwecklos
Adèle Exarchopoulos destroying a hotel room in a fit of rage is already my 2020 mood.
Cannes 2019
Film #35
“I’ve gone off the rails.”
The movie centers on Sybil (Virginie Efira), a therapist who wants to take a break from her practice to write a novel. After receiving a phone call from desperate Margot Vasilis (Adèle Exarchopoulos), Sibyl decides to get involved; she goes much further than any therapist every should.
Since Margot is an actress and her boyfriend Igor (Gaspar Ulliel) is an actor, Sibyl is able to cheat a little bit and catch up on them through YouTube videos. Her level of involvement increases when she is invited to the set of the film Never Talk to Strangers. Director Mika Sanders (Sandra Hüller) has varying levels of patience as the production spins out…
Self and fiction. Equal parts farcical and raw (and often funnier the more desperate it gets). Triet balance of all the overstuffed parts here is great as is Efira performance. Much like Victoria played with the expectations of French romantic comedy, Sibyl uses the basis French Bergmanian drama as wink for a series of collapsing fictions.
Everything seems perfect in the life of Sibyl, a psychotherapist who plans to take some time off to be able to fully dedicate herself to writing a novel, until Margot appears. The encounter with this young and fragile actress involved in a tumultuous relationship, will trigger in Sibyl a confrontation with her past. Justine Triet's latest film is a character study in which she takes us into the complexity of the female psyche of a woman who, upon facing a reflection of herself, falls into a maelstrom where past and present, reality and fiction all begin to blur. The film also addresses topics concerning the dynamics within relationships, memory, motherhood, and artistic endeavours as an instrument to understand us. Is…
crying to Vivaldi in a movie theater female gaze french actress named Adèle cinematic universe
A son who resembles his father, a memory that keeps coming back - psychology is construction, representation is remembrance. The comedy isn’t exactly gone but rather left at its borders, giving way to a strong leading drama (even if its resolutions lack some of the punch of its development). Triet manages to keep the film perfectly cohesive formally and dramaturgically, consolidating her name as one of the most competent crafters working today. This is a big shift of mood from ‘Victoria’, it is a bit tense and disquieting tonally, also way, way more personal, but the technical quality that made the former so consistent is also present here and even developed at spots (superb sound mixing, sharp montage, spectacular photography, needless to say, the acting is also great).
Oh, French nonsense. How I've missed it.
Every character here is defined by their need to give horrible advice and their outlandishly-poor decision making skills. For quite a while in the beginning, I felt like I was watching something out of order -- random snippets of scenes tossed into an editing timeline and sent off to Cannes. While the pacing remained a problem throughout, I did come to understand that this weaving in and out of scenes and perspectives was intentionally disorienting. It's in this chaos that we learn just how untrustworthy the titular character is. The choice to lean into humor was an excellent one, as it allowed me to laugh with the film rather than at it. As tensions escalate, things just gets funnier and funnier. A fun mess to sift through.
When I first read the description for this when it was announced to play Cannes I though, “Wow this sounds extremely my shit”. I’m happy to report that it was indeed extremely my shit. Hilarious and something most writers will find relatable to an extent.
Sandra Hüller MVP. I also fundamentally agree that Gaspard Ulliel is stressful!! idk, there’s way too much going on here and yet Adele Exarchopoulos has nothing to do except cry? I would never discourage anyone from seeing this because one of its four plots is so fucking funny!!
Sybil concerns a therapist who is also a writer (Virginie Efira), her actress client (Adèle Exarchopoulos) that she's recording sessions of for a new book, and about a half dozen other relationships central to Efira's Sybil. There are too many relationships in Sibyl for the psychological breakthroughs/breakdowns of the titular character to shine through. This is likely due to the dual professions and alcoholism also being thrown into the mix. There's a lot in this blender but Efira is fantastic, Sandra Hüller jumps off a boat when she can't handle working under certain conditions, and ultimately Almodovar-lite is a nice thing right now.
What a trip 2019 Cannes Film Festival must've been to coincidentally have TWO climactic tear-filled theater shots…
Sibyl (acted by Virginie Efira and written/directed by Justine Triet) is a film about the importance of patient/client confidentiality and being true to oneself. Moreover, physical dependence that is out of control can destroy families and individuals. Living dangerously is Sibyl’s true talent. In fact, Sibyl’s life is filled with complications as she tries to change disciplines from a clinical psychotherapist to a novelist. While decreasing her patient load she gets a phone call from a a desperate patient (Adele Exarchopoulos as Margot) of whom asks her to come to the island of Stromboli to act as her counselor. Sibyl goes and comedic chaos ensues.
Overall, this twisted film about real life problems is more of a work of drama…
복잡한 이야기 구성과 플롯 그리고 우아한 리듬 속에 여러 복선들을 흩뿌려 놓아 주인공의 내면 심리탐구에 흥미를 돋우나, 점차 뒤엉키는 관계 속 욕망들이 산만하게 느껴지면서 (개인적으로 후반부에 몰아치는 코미디 신들과 이야기 구조의 한계에서 오는 편집의 난잡함 등이 그렇다.) 후반부 과잉스러운 감정들과 함께 휩쓸리듯 영화가 다소 촌스럽고 가볍게 막을 내린다는 점이 아쉽다.
oh man people really arent lying that it features a Portrait™ scene
i swear i stopped breathing for a minute bc of the war flashbacks
A strong candidate for having one of the most inane and implausible advancing the plot solutions in recent memory (yes -that eavesdrop out of nowhere) that makes everything that follows inconsequential, unearned, and eventually meaningless and all that in spite of the strident performances throughout.
Everything I hate about a certain french cinema condensed in one movie :
too much drama and a bunch of self-centered bourgeois characters living in a bubble feeling sorry for themselves...
I couldn't care less, even though I love the actors.
For a film with such solid reviews out of Cannes and New York I expected to enjoy Sibyl much more than I did. I appreciate Triet's use of space, but her writing style doesn't work too well for me. She uses at times two and three storylines to convey her characters and their development and this really killed the character depth and emotion. The movie reminded me a bit of Moretti's Mia Madre in its mix of comedy and drama (which really works amazingly in his film), but here it doesn't get the chance to interplay when there are already so many stories fighting each other.
It could have worked much better. A story of a therapist revisiting in her…
“I’m at the heart of every choice.”
With her third film, French director Justine Triet explores the transgression of boundaries. These barriers exist between the home and the workplace, they separate fiction and reality and regulate the flow of memories from the past to the present. With ‘Sybil,’ Triet uses genre as a vehicle for the tragicomic exploration of its titular character. Unfortunately, she delivers a flimsy, unremarkable story of obsession unlikely to reach much further than local cinemas.
The Sibyl of the film’s title, portrayed by Virginie Efira, is a psychologist weaning off her patients to return to her first love of writing fiction. She can’t resist the lure of hysterical patient Margot (Adèle Exarchopoulos, perpetually weeping), an up-and-coming…
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