I watched Truthful Play — a 2023 film on Netflix final evening — as a result of, effectively I have been a fan of Wealthy Sommer since he performed Harry Crane on Mad Males (and he appeared then like a younger Isaac Asimov), [see

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Isaac Asimov (1965) and Harry Crane aka Rich Sommer (1960)

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and Eddie Marsan has been one in every of my favorites since he performed Ray Donovan’s older brother on Ray Donovan, the Showtime collection that ended too quickly.

Additionally, I am at all times keen to offer an erotic thriller an opportunity.

And the 2 — Marsan and Sommer — play a imply, soulless chief (Campbell) and assistant (Paul) of a hedge fund from hell, although for all I do know, that is what all or no less than most hedge fund workplaces are like.

However that is probably not what Truthful Play is about.  It is a couple of couple, Emily and Luke, who love intercourse and get engaged, proper earlier than Emily will get promoted to the job Luke was craving for.  The promotion devastates their relationship to the purpose the place Luke is unable to carry out in mattress, regardless of Emily’s inducements.  I really had a barely tough time believing this as a result of, effectively, Phoebe Dynevor as Emily is a wonderful, convincing actress.  However tensions between the 2 escalate. Luke continues to not have the nice sense to seek out one other job (one other considerably unbelievable lack of improvement, since Luke, effectively performed by Alden Ehrenreich, in any other case appears fairly good), and ultimately, verbal assaults and lack of intercourse escalate into … effectively, I do not wish to give an excessive amount of of the ending away.

All in all, I believe Truthful Play is value seeing.  However just a little extra subtlety would have helped the story.  It is okay for Emily’s mom to be a caricature, however I might’ve preferred to have seen just a little extra depth within the different characters, starting with Campbell and Paul.