From first-time director and screenwriter duo Charlie McDowell and Justin Lader, The One I Love is a film that confronts just how hard it can be to love someone. Sophie (Elisabeth Moss) and Ethan (Mark Duplass) are married and in counselling when their therapist (Ted Danson) suggests that they go on a weekend retreat together, just the two of them. He sends lots of his clients there, he assures them; he’ll take care of everything. But there is a glitch: maybe they are not as alone as they think.

It should be accepted that whenever Danson says, ‘This is going to be fun’, the reality might be just the opposite. He says this to the couple as they sit at a piano in his consultation room, ready to test the harmony of their relationship. Danson’s deadpan aloofness is charming, and after his brief appearance in the opening scene, Moss and Duplass are delightful enough to carry the film on their own; almost nobody else appears. Moss is excellent, with something of Bette Davis’s powerhouse authenticity and presence.