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ADDITION: Music Box Selects Blu-ray (April 2022): Music Box Selects have transferred Justine Triet's Sibyl to Blu-ray. Being a modern film in 1080P, shot on HD, and housed on a dual-layered disc with a very high bitrate - it looks fairly flawless. Blues can come across a bit pale but the image is, predictably, clean, has pleasing detail and offers a consistently strong representation.

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On their Blu-ray, Music Box Selects offer the option of DTS-HD Master tracks (24-bit) in both 5.1 surround and 2.0 channel stereo - both the original French (with some English) language. Sibyl has no strong aggressive sequences of separation - but there is the ocean (sailing), flashbacks with passionate sex but Sibyl is mostly dialogue-driven in terms of the soundstage. moments that come through with modest depth. There is no credited score but there is some music; the traditional "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" performed beautifully by Julie London, Nino Ferrer's "Un giorno come un altro" + "La rua Madureira" and later Roy Orbison's "Sharadoba". Like the video, it all sounds flawless in the lossless transfer. Music Box Selects offer optional English subtitles (for the French) and English (SDH) on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

The Music Box Selects Blu-ray offers a new commentary by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas (author of many books including Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre.) She discusses the critical reaction and her views as a compelling captivating expression of the randomness and shapelessness of life itself. She discusses the story and characters plus the director's motivations. There are 20-minutes worth of interviews with director Justine Triet, and actors Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Niels Schneider and Paul Hamy. The director talks of her inspiration being Woody Allen's "Another Woman" (with Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow and Ian Holm) that has a woman facing a mid-life crisis, who rents an apartment next to a psychiatrist's office to write a new book, only to become drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctor's help. While it has a tangential plot - it is a totally different film. The Blu-ray also has a photo gallery and theatrical trailer and and teaser trailer. 

Justine Triet's Sibyl is an interesting modern film about memory and the process of psychoanalysis. It shows some moral ambiguity as a curious subtext. There are intriguing mirror'ed ellipses interspersed throughout. The protagonist is drawn into the world of one of her patients while seeking the dense realities of her own life. It's extremely well done. The Music Box Selects Blu-ray has a new commentary and interviews. The film deserves revisitation. It has complexities that will evolve through re-watching. I was very keen. Certainly recommended!

Gary Tooze