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Michelangelo's Delphic Sibyl, Sistine Chapel ceiling. The English word sibyl (/ ˈ s ɪ b əl / or /ˈsɪbɪl/) is from Middle English, via the Old French sibile and the Latin sibylla from the ancient Greek Σίβυλλα (Sibylla). Varro derived the name from an Aeolic sioboulla, the equivalent of Attic theobule ("divine counsel").
Sibyl, prophetess in Greek legend and literature. Tradition represented her as a woman of prodigious old age uttering predictions in ecstatic frenzy, but she was always a figure of the mythical past, and her prophecies, in Greek hexameters, were handed down in writing.
Sep 11, 2020 · With Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Gaspard Ulliel, Sandra Hüller. A jaded psychotherapist returns to her first passion of becoming a writer. However, her life is complicated by a desperate film actress who wants her help, and who draws her into a world of questionable ethics.
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.
Sep 11, 2020 · French writer/director Justine Triet’s “Sibyl” wraps these observations in an elegant meta tale exploring emotional engineering on the page, on set, and in the eponymous mastermind’s personal storyline. Rich in impulsive sensuality and knowing humor, the film captivates even as it stumbles through too many subplots.
May 24, 2019 · Virginie Efira ('Elle') headlines French writer-director Justine Triet's third feature 'Sibyl,' which premiered in competition in Cannes.
May 24, 2019 · Justine Triet's second highly pleasurable collaboration with actress Virginie Efira is a witty, slinky psychodrama with just enough on its mind. By Guy Lodge. Courtesy of Les Films...
Sep 10, 2020 · Sibyl herself (Virginie Efira) is an emotional blank, detached from her practice in Paris and determined to return to the writing career she abandoned a decade earlier.
May 24, 2019 · Sibyl (a jittery Virginie Efira)i s a psychotherapist so driven to write a novel that she drops her clients to buy herself some extra time. She’s barely started to contend with writers’...
Sep 11, 2020 · Aided by Simon Beaufils’s luxuriant wide-screen photography and Laurent Sénéchal’s alternately swooning and plinking suspense music, “Sibyl” is a vacation for the senses and a gathering headache for the brain.
