The Other Half

This screening took place on Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 9:30 pmYukon Arts Centre

Rendezvous with Madness Film Tour: The Other Half Five years after the tragic, unexplained disappearance of his younger brother, Nickie Bellow (Tom Cullen), a British man now living in Toronto, is caught in the throes of an intense depression. He barely maintains contact with his parents, who are still in the U.K., and is all too easily provoked into acts of violence, one of which costs him his job as a waiter. Nickie meets a vivacious aspiring painter named Emily (Tatiana Maslany), toward whom he feels an immediate, and immediately reciprocated, attraction. But if their easy intimacy — afternoons cuddling in the park, private couplings shot with unusual tenderness — initially suggest that Nickie has found his salvation, that illusion is shattered when Emily goes off her meds and her severe form of bipolar disorder resurfaces. A psychological drama that centres on a passionate love affair between the self-destructive Nickie and a bi-polar Emily, The Other Half is a moving and realistic depiction of how mental illness can affect family and relationships. Culture critic and RWM program director, Geoff Pevere will lead a post-screening discussion with director of The Other Half, Joey Klein. "[Maslany] is entirely your best reason to catch this homegrown effort." Adrian Mack, The Georgia Straight Special ticket pricing for this screening: $10/ $8 YFS members, seniors, youth and under-employed Co-presented by the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts. Rendezvous, the world’s first and largest mental health film festival, has been produced annually in Toronto since 1993.