In his auspicious debut feature,
The Unbelievable Truth, writer-director Hal Hartley fashioned a quirky romance between an ambitious model and a suspected mass murderer who were products of neurotic middle-class families on Long Island. Hartley, who was born and raised in that New York suburban region, returns to the same fertile ground in
Trust and confirms his promise as a gifted comic mannerist. The lovers in
Trust flaunt their emotional wounds. Maria, played by
Truth's ultrasexy Adrienne