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- 2022
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 42 m
- 2022
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 42 m
Summary Kate (Ruth Wilson) is living on the fringes of society becomes intoxicated by a stranger (Tom Burke) who overwhelms her quiet life.
Directed By: Harry Wootliff
Written By: Molly Davies, Deborah Kay Davies, Harry Wootliff
- 2022
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 42 m
- 2022
- Samuel Goldwyn Films
- 1 h 42 m
True Things
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Summary Kate (Ruth Wilson) is living on the fringes of society becomes intoxicated by a stranger (Tom Burke) who overwhelms her quiet life.
Directed By: Harry Wootliff
Written By: Molly Davies, Deborah Kay Davies, Harry Wootliff
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
68
64% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
36% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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What makes the film’s episodic approach flow is the pulse-sensitive camerawork. It’s worth singling out, because it is the kind that is often described as “intimate” but rarely pulled off with such Maysles-esque aplomb.
Harry Wootliff’s True Things is a raw and passionate look at the type of love that can be both all-encompassing and destructive, passionate and dangerous.
By managing to keep faith with this fast-unravelling person, even in her most bozo moments of losing the plot, Wilson turns in her best and bravest work in films to date.
Harry Wootliff’s jaggedly grown-up psychological drama True Things thrives on the hot, tense chemistry between its two excellent leads: It’s what pulls the audience through an obstacle course of potentially implausible scenarios that instead ring stingingly true.
Wilson and Burke give formidably good performances: a woman who desperately wants to give and receive love, and a man who hasn’t the smallest idea what any of that means.
The ending offers only a slightly clichéd vision of emancipation that leaves the picture not much clearer. After showing how hard life can be, it feels a little bit too easy.
True Things is not a bad film, exactly. The actors play it like they mean it, while the drama itself carries a natural dry charge. But it’s unambitious, sometimes clunky and doesn’t wrong-foot us once.
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Production Company
BBC Film,
BFI Films,
Lady Lazarus Productions,
Riff Raff Entertainment,
Riff Raff Films,
The Bureau
Release Date Sep 9, 2022
Duration 1 h 42 m
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Awards
Stockholm Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Les Arcs European Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
