Film · 1962 · Films · 1960s
Sundays and Cybèle
Scored from 29 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 peers).
Summary
Pierre is a former military pilot living at Ville-d'Avray outside Paris, left amnesiac and guilt-ridden by a crash in Indochina in which he believes he killed a child. At the station he watches a man abandon his twelve-year-old daughter at a convent school, and begins collecting her on Sundays by passing himself off as her father; she gives him her true name, Cybèle, as a secret. Their afternoons of walks around the pond and invented games steady him, while the woman he lives with and the people of the town read the friendship as something else. Serge Bourguignon's French drama, shot in black-and-white widescreen, won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Sundays and Cybèle (1962) is a film IMDb files under the drama genre. Its country of origin is listed as France. It runs 1h 50m. It plays in French.
Only 29 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 30 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 1,928 1960s films, not against the whole corpus.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Sundays and Cybèle lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1960s (1,929 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 29.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
