"In the City of Sylvia: Pure Pleasure and Pure Cinema" - Village Voice 9th dec.2008

By J.Hoberman

In the City of Sylvia is pure pleasure and pure cinema.

A sensitive young romantic (Xavier Lafitte), identified in Guerin's notes as the Dreamer, searches a foreign city (Strasbourg) for his lost soulmate. "Fetish" seems too cruel a word for the nameless poet's obsession with the Sylvia he might have met some years before in club. And the underworld where this pre-Raphaelite hippie goes to retrieve her is a paradise - summery Strasbourg is almost ridiculously ripe with gorgeously individuated women. But, wait, could this heaven be another sort of hell?

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