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Films

  • RockNRolla (English)
  • Mostly Martha (German)
  • Jean de Florette (French)
  • Manon of the Spring (French)
  • Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers and Tides
  • Winged Migration
  • Microcosmos (France)
  • In the Mood for Love (Cantonese/Shanghainese/
    French)
  • High Fidelity
  • About A Boy (English)
  • The City of Lost Children (French)
  • Sometimes In April (Rwandan Genocide)
  • The Constant Gardener (English)
  • Baran (Dari/Persian)
  • Blackboards (Farsi/Kurdish)
  • A Time For Drunken Horses (Kurdish/Farsi)
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Ladies In Lavender (English)
  • The Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish)
  • The Sea Inside (Spanish)
  • Before Night Falls (Spanish)
  • Talk To Her (Spanish)
  • The City (Spanish)
  • Wit
  • Snatch (English)
  • Next Stop Wonderland
  • Dial "M" for Murder
  • Room With a View (English)
  • Enchanted April (English)
  • The Commitments (Irish)
  • Into the West (Irish)
  • Waking Ned Devine (Irish)
  • Demons In the Garden (Spanish)
  • Queen of Hearts (Italian)
  • Open Doors (Italian)
  • King of Masks (Chinese)
  • Kolya (Czech)
  • La Lectrice (French)
  • The Hairdresser's Husband (French)
  • When the Cat's Away (French)
  • Cafe au Lait (French)
  • Autumn Tale (French)
  • Raise the Red Lantern (Chinese)
  • Songcatcher
  • Carrington (English)
  • Dream with the Fishes
  • Cyclo (Vietnamese)
  • Fire (Hindi/English)
  • My Father's Glory (French)
  • My Mother's Castle (French)
  • Le Trou (French)
  • Color of Paradise (Farsi)
  • Not One Less (Mandarin)
  • Ju Dou (Chinese)
  • To Live (Chinese)
  • Red Sorghum (Mandarin)
  • Hate (French)
  • Children of Heaven (Farsi)
  • White Balloon (Farsi)
  • Gabbeh (Farsi)
  • The Edukators (German)
  • Run Lola Run (German)

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Contact

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  • Website: http://sosylvie.typepad.com/

Biography

I live in California with my husband and our 9 year-old boy Marcel, who we homeschool. I also have a 24 year-old son, Jesse -- it happens in the blink of an eye! I was born in San Francisco and when I was 12 we moved to a commune in Santa Cruz. I stayed in Santa Cruz for 30 years and moved to Los Gatos for a stretch. Now I'm back in Santa Cruz. I'm French & 'Black' Irish.
I want to be adopted by a family in Italy.

I've been "thrifting" for most of my life. Some past endeavors: I owned a vintage clothing shop in Santa Cruz, sold vintage clothing in a shop on Rue de Seine in Paris for a few years, organized painting vacations for groups of people in the South of France, owned a vintage furniture shop in Los Gatos, designed (and still do) interiors from flats in San Francisco to villas in Italy, was an extra in films, and a pirate radio DJ (my favorite of all of these)!

Among my design influences I include growing up in San Francisco in the 60s, the Santa Cruz punk scene, my time spent around gypsy musicians and circus performers in Paris, my mother, and everything else in between.

I am the proud owner of a lovely white piano from the 1860s and just knowing it's there makes me sleep better at night.


INTERESTS:

gardening, so much music -- the clash, the pogues, johnny cash, otis redding, stevie wonder, tom waits, dolly parton, loreena mckennitt, puccinni, cheb kaled, orchestra baobab, mano negra, nusrat fateh ali khan, and so much more. i love films (see list at left) and masterpiece theater. i need good food: thai, indian, and mexican... french pastries, and italian coffee. i enjoy reading, especially food and travel memoirs -- memoirs of expatriates who've relocated to italy and france (scroll down for some titles on the left sidebar). i love creating and designing. i love to swim in the ocean.