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Sibyl (2019)

Sibyl poster
Directed by
Justine Triet
Genre
comedy drama
Country
France
Runtime
1h 41m
Rated
R
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 521 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A psychotherapist decides to write a novel based on the story of a new patient. She gets drawn into the patient's turbulent life, blurring the line between her work and her fiction.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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