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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").
Sep 11, 2020 · Sibyl: Directed by Justine Triet. With Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Gaspard Ulliel, Sandra Hüller. A jaded psychotherapist returns to her first passion of becoming a writer.
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.
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.
Intriguing yet uneven, Sibyl is just about held together by its leads, but too often pits great performances against frustrating filmmaking. Read Critics Reviews
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The Sibylline Oracles had a long life. The Sibyl was in origin a single Greek prophetess, renowned for the accuracy of her forecasts, divinely inspired, but portrayed as mad or raving, and regularly spewing forth dire forebodings.
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 Pelleas.
