Sibyl

Director: Justine Triet

2019 / 101min / DCP

Four years before her Palme d’Or triumph with Anatomy of a Fall, Triet produced this comic thriller starring Virginie Efira in the title role as a psychotherapist who, fed up with her métier, decides to return to writing fiction—and, in the person of one of her patients, a young, tumultuous actress named Margot (Adèle Exarchopoulos), finds an absolutely irresistible source of literary inspiration. Impassioned performances by both leads make Sibyl a compelling study in obsession and self-delusion, with the added inducement of Anatomy star Sandra Hüller’s appearance in a side-splitting role as the director of a film-within-the-film.