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Daytime Tiger

 

New Zealand 2011, 92 minutes
Dir. Costa Botes
Rating: [Exempt]
Genres: Documentary / Arts & Artists

Topics: Mental Health.

 

Synopsis: In 1999, NZ writer Michael Morrissey was diagnosed with manic depression, or bi-polar disorder (Morrissey prefers the older term). He has suffered eight manic episodes since, and been briefly hospitalised three times. Despite this, Michael rejected traditional medication, believing it would inhibit his creativity. Instead he chose to try and control his condition – to “tame the tiger” through willpower.

“Costa Botes’ portrait of New Zealand writer Michael Morrissey is indeed a tiger-ride – an up-close encounter with an extremely intelligent man in the grip of bipolar disorder. It’s also a harrowing portrait of marriage vows tested to the extreme.”~N.Z. Film Festival

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