'Sylvie's Love' Trailer: Tessa Thompson's New Period Romance Arrives On Amazon This Christmas

Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that this Christmas, there is going to be a wealth of big new movies at the multiplex for people to go see. I don’t know about you, but this is a pretty depressing thought, as I regularly escape my family by heading to the cinemas during the holidays. (Yes, “Wonder Woman 1984” is hitting theaters, but who’s really going to leave their home to watch it when it’s available on HBO Max? Don’t kid yourself.) But even if we aren’t leaving the house to go watch new films this Christmas, at least we’ll have plenty of new content at home, including Amazon’s upcoming film, “Sylvie’s Love.”

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As seen in the trailer for “Sylvie’s Love,” the film is a period romance film about a jazz musician and an aspiring TV producer that discover love in the hot New York summer of 1957. The film chronicles the long journey of the two characters as they tackle ups and downs in their careers as well as the lost love from that summer years before.

The film stars Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha in the lead roles. They’re joined by Aja Naomi King, Jemima Kirke, Tone Bell, Alano Miller, Wendi Mclendon-Covey, and Eva Longoria in the cast. “Sylvie’s Love” is written and directed by Eugene Ashe. The film marks his first feature as a writer and director since 2012’s “Homecoming.”

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“Sylvie’s Love” is set to debut on Amazon Prime Video on December 23. You can see the new trailer below.

Here’s the synopsis:

In Sylvie’s Love, the jazz is smooth and the air sultry in the hot New York summer of 1957. Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha), a saxophonist, spends late nights playing behind a less-talented but well-known bandleader, as member of a jazz quartet. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson), who dreams of a career in television, spends her summer days helping around her father’s record store, as she waits for her fiancé to return from war. When Robert takes a part-time job at the record store, the two begin a friendship that sparks a deep passion in each of them unlike anything they have felt before. As the summer winds down, life takes them in different directions, bringing their relationship to an end. Years pass, Sylvie’s career as a TV producer blossoms, while Robert has to come to terms with what the age of Motown is doing to the popularity of Jazz. In a chance meeting, Sylvie and Robert cross paths again, only to find that while their lives have changed, their feelings for each other remain the same. Writer/director Eugene Ashe combines romance and music into a sweeping story that brings together changing times, a changing culture, and the true price of love.