SummaryIt's the story of a small town gorilla, Sylvio, who is stuck in his job at a debt collection agency. Deep down he just wants to express himself with his hand puppet, Herbert Herpels, and his puppet show that highlights the quiet moments of life. He accidentally joins a local TV program and a series of on-air mishaps threaten to shatter his identi... Read More
Directed By:Kentucker Audley, Albert Birney
Written By:Albert Birney, Kentucker Audley, Meghan Doherty
Sylvio
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Oct 12, 2017
90
The directors, Kentucker Audley (who co-stars as a talk-show host) and Albert Birney, embrace both sides of Sylvio’s temperament, realizing his frenzied outbursts (including a vehicular-chase scene) as imaginatively and as delicately as his self-doubt.
Nov 29, 2017
75
Vine fad “Simply Sylvio” and its film adaptation — more plainly titled Sylvio — by directors Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley offer a tense amalgamation of lowbrow sensibilities and highbrow execution, which the anthropomorphic gorilla then beats into submission.
Oct 12, 2017
75
The plight of the alienated monkey is at turns absurd and genuinely bittersweet, not to mention a whole lot better than its premise might suggest.
Oct 12, 2017
70
Even when their bananas premise grows a bit stale, the directors prove at least semi-serious about their material’s rawer emotions, thereby making the film an uncanny character study about an alienated anthropomorphic primate who yearns to be himself.
Oct 12, 2017
70
One thing's for certain: Not even Charles Darwin could fully figure this monkey out.
Oct 12, 2017
70
Birney and Audley have an impressive visual sense — the smart framing and thrifty, ingenious production design (by Peter Davis) at times suggest a Wes Anderson–directed installment of Between Two Ferns — and also the good sense to lean on Birney’s nuanced physical performance.
Oct 10, 2017
50
Sylvio's banal depictions of everyday loneliness through the diurnal tedium of an anthropomorphic animal brings to mind BoJack Horseman, but without the caustic navel-gazing and self-destruction or the mordant pop-culture musings.
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Feb 13, 2018
8
A film that shows just how safe Hollywood plays it. These are the kinds of ideas that need to come to the forefront of cinema. But instead they sadly lurk in the corners of your online streaming search, or in the arthouse theaters it takes a little longer to get to if you don't live in a major city. Sylvio may not be a perfect film, but it's perfect absurdism, and tightly interwoven into a crystal clear coherent social commentary. And most importantly, Sylvio doesn't crack. It may be absurd to the viewer, but in Sylvio's world, this is just life. And it may be very close to yours.// My Metascore for Sylvio as a whole may be 8; but surely a 10 for ambitious brave and intelligent film making.
Feb 27, 2018
6
It's absurdist and you have to watch it with that set of mind. It isn't nearly as funny as it think it is but it was ok.
Although completely forgettable.
Production Company:
- Dogfish Pictures
- Privateer Entertainment
- Salem Street Entertainment
- UnLTD Productions
Release Date:Oct 13, 2017
Duration:1 h 20 m
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Awards
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Americana Film Fest
• 1 Nomination
Eastern Oregon Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
