Though it has gorgeous shots of New York City and glimpses of Paris, with pretty people doing things in the worlds of fine art and broadcast journalism, there’s something of a TV-movie quality to Brian DeCubellis’ latest feature “Trust.”
That may because its good looking cast arose from the ranks of television, particularly Victoria Justice who grew up before our eyes in a series of Nickelodeon shows and here plays her most mature character yet, a young married woman with temptations all around her.
Her husband is played by Matthew Daddario, whose looks makes him well suited as both the local TV reporter he portrays, and a lead in the Freeform series “Shadowhunters” where he played alongside Katherine McNamara, who seduces him here.
Daddario and Justice had also worked together before, too, in the 2015 Netflix rom-com “Naomi & Ely’s No Kiss List.”
In “Trust,” Justice’s character Brooke is a high-powered gallery owner in the heart of Soho, who is on the verge of introducing a new artist she’s found, played by Lucien Laviscount (an English actor with some teen TV credits as well, in “Katy Keene”).
Exclusively painting lurid female nudes (preferred models: married women), he’s meant to be full of animal magnetism, but he comes off as the worst kind of obvious cad, who wears furs and makes his own rules.
But he’s also about to become a successful artist (with a movie star as a new client), so Brooke goes to Paris with him to close that sale; the artist wants to close his own deal, and his sexual single mindedness provides much of the drama.