If you’re eagerly awaiting Tessa Thompson’s upcoming romantic drama Sylvie’s Love, we have good news.
The film will now debut on Amazon Prime two days earlier than initially planned. Instead of a Christmas day release, Sylvie’s Love now drops December 23.
Amazon didn’t give a reason for the date shift, but it seems safe to assume they’re trying to avoid losing viewers during the quickly filling Christmas day slot. Major studio releases including Wonder Woman 1984 and Disney/Pixar’s Soul will have streaming debuts on December 25.
(Plus there’s…you know. All the Christmas-themed content you can stream on Christmas.)
Sylvie’s Love follows Sylvie (Thompson), a woman trying to achieve her dream of working in television while waiting for her fiancé to return from war. Watch the trailer for the jazz-filled period drama below.
Here’s the full plot description from Amazon:
In Sylvie’s Love, the jazz is smooth and the air sultry in the hot New York summer of 1957. Robert (Nnamdi Asomugha), a saxophonist, spends late nights playing behind a less-talented but well-known bandleader. Sylvie (Thompson), who dreams of a career in television, spends her summer days helping around her father’s record store, as she waits for her fiancé to return from war. When Robert takes a part-time job at the record store, the two begin a friendship that sparks a deep passion in each of them unlike anything they have felt before.
But life takes them in different directions, bringing their relationship to an end. Years pass, Sylvie’s career as a TV producer blossoms, while Robert has to come to terms with what the age of Motown is doing to the popularity of Jazz. In a chance meeting, Sylvie and Robert cross paths again, only to find that while their lives have changed, their feelings for each other remain the same.
Sylvie’s Love premieres December 23 on Amazon Prime.
Source: Amazon