PREVIEW: True Things (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Ruth Wilson (Saving Mr. Banks), Tom Burke (The Souvenir), Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake), Tom Weston-Jones (film debut), Elizabeth Rider (Stone Cold), Frank McCusker (Hunger), Ann Firbank (Anna and the King), Nathan Ampofo (Ebony Road), Michael Moreland (Under the Skin)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Harry Wootliff (Only You), director, writer; Molly Davies (film debut), writer; Tristan Goligher (45 Years), Ben Jackson (Sleuth), Jude Law (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow) and Ruth Wilson (film debut), producers; Alex Baranowski (The Windermere Children), cinematographer; Tim Fulford (Rialto), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Kate (Wilson), dissatisfied with her office job and predictable life, finds herself exhilarated by a chance sexual encounter with a handsome stranger she calls Blond (Burke). She soon becomes more and more drawn towards him, hoping that he will provide the escape she desperately needs, but ends up embarking on an emotionally dangerous journey that begins to consume her…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Ruth Wilson is on fiery form as a troubled thrill-seeking woman in filmmaker Harry Wootliff’s breezy take on the acclaimed psychological novel.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 1ST APRIL 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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