Sibyl is a 2019 comedy-drama film directed by Justine Triet from a screenplay she co-wrote with Arthur Harari, and starring Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Gaspard Ulliel, in his final film to be released theatrically during his lifetime. The film is a co-production between France and Belgium and was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
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Plot
Sibyl is a psychotherapist who returns to her first passion: writing. Her newest patient, Margot, is a troubled up-and-coming actress, who proves to be too tempting a source of inspiration. Fascinated almost to the point of obsession, Sibyl becomes more and more involved in Margot's tumultuous life.
Cast
Virginie Efira as Sibyl
Adèle Exarchopoulos as Margot Vasilis
Gaspard Ulliel as Igor Maleski
Sandra Hüller as Mikaela "Mika" Sanders
Laure Calamy as Édith
Niels Schneider as Gabriel
Paul Hamy as Étienne
Arthur Harari as Dr. Katz
Adrien Bellemare as Daniel
Jeanne Arra-Bellanger as Selma
Liv Harari as Livia
Lorenzo Lefebvre as Galotin
Aurélien Bellanger as the editor
Production
Filming took place in Paris, in studios located in Lyon and on the Italian island of Stromboli.
Reception
Critical response
Sibyl received mixed reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 57% of 54 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.9/10. The website's consensus reads: "Intriguing yet uneven, Sibyl is just about held together by its leads, but too often pits great performances against frustrating filmmaking." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 59 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.
AlloCiné, a French cinema site, gave the film an average rating of 3.7/5, based on a survey of 23 French reviews.