Tru Love

A complicated romance is at the center of co-director Kate Johnston's Tru Love, a lesbian love story about a 37-year-old commitment-phobe named Tru (co-director Shauna MacDonald) who falls for Alice (Kate Trotter), a 60-year-old mother of a woman named Suzanne (Christine Horne), with whom Tru shared a one-night stand. The cross-currents of conflicted emotion are strong here as recent widow Alice, who is visiting busy corporate lawyer Suzanne, befriends the sexually restless Tru and finds herself drawn to the younger woman. An appalled Suzanne puts up obstacles to this new relationship, in part due to her own confusion about the night she spent with Tru. But love manages to find a way and the entire experience proves liberating for each of the characters. Tru Love's strength lies in its trio of key performances, led by Trotter's glowing turn as a woman haunted by her late husband's memory who unexpectedly discovers another part of herself. Recommended. (T. Keogh)