Oil on Water (2007)

Bianca Lishansky, John St. Alexander, Elle Matthews, Greg Bright, Liam Magner ... see more  , Melissa Brouard , Nadia Geyser , Neil Coppen , Tyler Bizzell , Vanessa Marawa

The passionate romance between a talented young journalist and her eccentric lover slowly begins to buckle under the weight of mental illness in this haunting psychological drama from first time featu... read more re filmmaker Peter Matthews. When Anna and Max first met, the skilled writer who had been abandoned by her father as a young girl believed she had found everything she could ever want in a man. As their relationship grew increasingly intense, Anna slowly lets her guard down while allowing Max's love to wash over her body and soul. Eventually, Max begins to withdraw emotionally for reasons that he cannot fathom or explain. When these strange symptoms begin to manifest themselves in Max's art, Anna reluctantly confronts her lover despite a lingering fear that their relationship will dissolve in the process. In the aftermath, Anna's unraveling begins to mirror Max's mental disintigration, leaving her with no other way to deal with her emotional pain other than through her writing. Over the course of the next five months, the details of the uncertain relationship become increasingly vivid in Anna's poignant and melancholy musings. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi