![]() ![]() “The future is so hard to predict,” muses Emma (Soo) in lofty voiceover near the outset, though audiences are likely to find it a bit easier. ![]() The question of whether one can love two people at once has fueled many a greater screen romance than this one, though even the lesser ones can make us weep it’s the strangely sterile, textureless finish of Fickman’s film that keeps any real feeling at bay. The premise is old and oft-recycled, though still fit for purpose: Years after her husband was lost at sea and declared dead, a young woman is on the brink of a fresh start with a new fiancé, when the missing man’s unexpected return throws her into a tailspin. The bland proficiency on display throughout “One True Loves” is galling in a story that calls for ripe emotional excess, conceived as it is in the tradition of vintage, unfashionably heart-on-sleeve Hollywood melodrama. ![]()
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