We’ve seen it before; girl meets boy, boy asks girl out, boy and girl fall in love, and they live happily ever after. From watching the trailer, you may think that the aforementioned familiar story is what we will see from “True Things,” but the opposite is the case. “True Things” is anything but true love, and director Harry Wootliff described the film as a “cautionary tale of a destructive sexual relationship that is both complex and ordinary; a relationship that is in fact so familiar to us that it’s almost a rite of passage.”

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“True Things” centers on a toxic and predatory relationship played by Ruth Wilson (“The Affair,” “His Dark Materials”) and Tom Burke (“Mank”).

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Originally premiering at the Venice Film Festival in 2021, “True Things” starring Ruth Wilson (“Luther,” “The Affair”) and Tom Burke (“The Souvenir,” “Mank”) is finally coming out in the U.S. this fall. Written and directed by Harry Wootliff, “True Things” tells the story of Kate played by Wilson, a girl who sleepwalks through life when an encounter with a stranger awakens her.

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“True Things” is a “romantic” drama that is not romantic in the slightest. In the tradition of films like Catherine Breillat’s “Romance” and Adrian Lyne’s “9 ½ weeks,” the focus is on what is revealed about a female protagonist by how much she is willing to sacrifice to briefly experience passion with an unreliable yet sexy man. This premise is fatally undermined by the decision to keep Kate (Ruth Wilson) a vague figure as sophomore director, Harry Wootliff, invites audiences to project their own pasts onto this broadly sketched dynamic of impossible desire based on a book by Deborah Kay Davies, ‘True Things About Me.’ Instead of conjuring resonance, the result is a bland heroine whose lack of distinguishing features makes it hard to give a damn as she goes through the motions of setting fire to her life. 

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Kate is in her mid-to-late 30s and works as a benefits advisor in the picturesque British seaside town of Ramsgate.

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