LoveTrue

How do young people handle it when they discover that love is not always unconditional, pure and everlasting? In this American three-parter, video director and experimental documentary filmmaker Alma Har’el examines the myth of true love. She goes to Alaska to follow a stripper named Blake, a young woman who says she was born a nerd. Her boyfriend, who suffers from a rare bone disease, doesn’t want to have sex with her. Willie sells locally produced coconuts in Hawaii, and recently discovered he isn’t the biological father of his two-year-old son. And in New York, singer-songwriter Victory is struggling with the consequences of her parents’ rocky divorce. As she did in her award-winning debut film , Har’el effortlessly interweaves fact and fiction against the hypnotic backdrop of the soundtrack by Flying Lotus. In poetic reenacted dream sequences, she returns with Blake, Willie and Victory to life-changing moments from their youth, with their younger selves portrayed by actors.