TRUE TRUE LIE

Released by soap-opera handsome Dr. Anthony (Jason Durr) after 12 years in an asylum; fragile, haunted, mid twenties Dana (Lydia Leonard) is reunited with her two best childhood friends, the dark, sexy and cold hearted Nathalie (Jaime King) and the nurturing and empathetic Paige (Annabelle Wallis). However, Dana soon begins to realize that the strange and gruesome events that led to her committal may not have been imaginary after all.

Shot in Bucharest, Romania, "True True Lie" represents helmer Eric Styles senior theatrical project. He is known much better across the pond then in the US, where he has been working in television, mostly for the BBC, since 1991. His work shows the fine tuning that a director gets from a decade and a half of work. Given a well polished Hitchcockian script by Camille Solari & Gary Humphreys (Incubus, 2006) and an excellent cast to work with, Styles proceeds to bring out their best at every plot twist and turn.

The three main female leads played by King, Leonard and Wallis are superb and it is no accident that nearly all of the cast is from Britain; where for some reason they have been training overall better actors than in the USA for decades. However American Jaime Kings’ Nathalie steals the show as the wicked, slightly over the top villainess. Just as you think she is going to spin out of control and into a caricature out of Dick Tracy (1990) she reins it back in and becomes the hot male-hating harlot that all men hope to capture and tame while simultaneously praying never to encounter at all. The only other American of note, Camille Solari, is unfortunately given little screen time as Dana’s best in-asylum friend, Lucy. But the moment she has is filled with her strong presence. Expect to see more of this stunning actress in the future.