Tessa Thompson on the Importance of Love Films — Outside the White Gaze

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Tessa Thompson on the Importance of Love Films — Outside the White Gaze
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What makes Sylvie's Love truly unique is that it’s about Black love and life — without Black pain.

shines and stuns as Sylvie, an aspiring television producer, who crosses paths with Robert , a jazz saxophonist with dreams of making it big. What makes this filmIn the film directed by Eugene Ashe, Sylvie falls for Robert not long after meeting, despite being engaged to a wealthy man who’s off fighting in the war — just one of the obstacles that Sylvie and Robert face on the journey that is their love story.

Robert’s budding career as a jazz saxophonist has him cross paths with a new manager who eventually lands him and his band a gig overseas. Another one of the various trials and tribulations the couple faces, all while Sylvie’s tenacity puts her in a position to make her personal career dreams come true.

Sylvie and Robert living and loving as tender and complicated as two white leads would do in a period piece — all of which takes place outside of the white gaze.“When Eugene first told me the idea of making this film, he said, ‘If you could look at a photograph, a very iconic photograph of Black people from the fifties. Maybe it's a woman in a blue dress, and her daughter is in front of her.

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