Sibyl

[Opens Sept. 11 in Virtual Cinema sponsored by MSP Film Society; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org.] A risqué, melancholy, disappointing, low-key, but well-acted, 110-minute, 2019 film in which a recovering alcoholic, French psychotherapist (Virginie Efira), who lives in Paris with her new boyfriend (Paul Hamy), her two children, and her sister (Laure Calamy) after breaking up with her ex-lover (Niels Schneider), decides to reduce her therapist workload to write a novel, but her life goes off the rails when she agrees to counsel a pregnant, troubled actress (Adèle Exarchopoulos) who has fallen for her costar (Gaspard Ulliel) while filming Never Talk to Strangers with his German director wife (Sandra Hüller) and ends up using her troubled patient as inspiration for her book.
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