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.

– Molly Haskell in (US) Vogue, July 1985

I see my mother in her performance.

– Sylvia Ashton-Warner's son Elliot Henderson

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

– Andrew Sarris in Village Voice, 4 June 1985