Eros enters your life on wings
and launches your mind on a story.
—Socrates
Why is falling in love so easy and staying in love so hard?
I grew up believing in romantic love. It always seemed to work out in books and movies!
But as I got older, I began to question that idea. Relationships I believed in fell apart. Marriages failed. So many things I had believed in turned out to be untrue.
To find out why, I set off to explore the complexities of romantic love by talking to friends, strangers, former boyfriends and ex-husbands.
Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, definitely thought provoking, TRUE HEARTS illuminates the delirium of falling in love, the difficulties of making it last, the physical pain of heartbreak, and the bitter-sweetness of reconnecting with a former lover.
Part essay, part memoir, part fool’s quest.
- deborah dickson
About the filmmaker
Deborah Dickson, three-time Academy Award nominee, is a non-fiction filmmaker whose over thirty documentary films have premiered at Sundance, Berlin and many other film festivals and have been awarded Emmys, the DuPont-Columbia Award, the Peabody Award and Ace awards.
RUTHIE AND CONNIE: EVERY ROOM IN THE HOUSE premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001 and won over 12 awards at festivals worldwide. THE EDUCATION OF GORE VIDAL premiered at Sundance in 2002. FRANCES STELOFF: MEMOIRS OF A BOOKSELLER premiered at Sundance, and screened at many other festivals before being nominated for an Academy Award. LALEE’S KIN, which premiered at Sundance in 2000 was nominated for an Academy Award and a Spirit Award and won an Alfred I. DuPont Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2004.
In addition to producing and directing, Dickson teaches directing at the School of Visual Arts Masters Program in Social Documentary.
TRUE HEARTS is Dickson's most recent film.