John Maguire on Film: True Things – an office anti-romance that spins out of control for director Harry Wootliff

Ruth Wilson and Tom Burke impress as the two leads in Wootliff’s flawed psychological drama

Not cute: Ruth Wilson and Tom Burke in True Things

True Things, Directed by Harry Wootliff, Selected, 16, Rating: ***

British writer and director Harry Wootliff made an impressive debut with 2018’s Only You, which spun an engrossing story out of a young couple’s struggle to conceive out of an initial set-up that might have derived from the cheesiest meet-cute rom-com. There’s nothing cute about how the lovers in her follow-up, True Things, meet. It’s not even certain that you could call what they share ...