Sylvia

This is a movie of eloquent dialogue and even more eloquent silences; of wonderful faces that tell whole worlds in a glance, a pause, a kiss in the rain.

– Reviewer Molly Haskell in (American) Vogue, July 1985

I see my mother in her performance.

– Sylvia Ashton-Warner's son Elliot Henderson on Eleanor David's performance

...both engrossing and enchanting. [Director Michael Firth] is clearly on Sylvia's side, but he manages to make her more sympathetic by making her more fallibly human.

– Reviewer Andrew Sarris in Village Voice, 4 June 1985