Half Life

synopsis

Writer-director Jennifer Phang's bold film combines live action with amazing animated flights of fancy to tell a powerful story. In a changing world, a precocious boy and his jaded sister react to their father's desertion and the powerful presence of their mother's charmingly manipulative boyfriend. Through imaginative powers, they escape their confining homelife, save their self-destructive mother, and finally, reinvent their world in a mind-bending conclusion.