A sly, sultry character study from filmmaker Justine Triet, 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, Igor (Gaspard Ulliel), who happens to be married to the film’s director (Sandra Hüller). Becoming further enmeshed in Margot’s life, Sibyl starts to blur past and present, fiction with reality, and the personal with the professional as she begins to use Margot’s life as source material for her novel.
Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival 2019
Special Presentation - Toronto International Film Festival 2019
Official Selection - NYFF 2019
“An elegant and clever portrait of a creative crisis”
Eric Kohn
IndieWire
“A chic, blackly comic psychodrama”
Guy Lodge
Variety
"Effortlessly evocative"
Manuela Lazic
Cinema Scope
"Smart and absorbing”
Justin Chang
LA Times