What I Watched -- What If It Works?

The second SLIFF show of the year was What If it Works?  The festival doesn't host many comedies; they don't lend themselves to the contemplative navel gazing that such festivals thrive on.

This one, though, with its additional subject of mental illness, made the cut.  And, boy, am I glad it did!

Where I think the film succeeded so well is in treating each person's mental illness respectfully, but keeping it light-hearted and funny.  Adrian's OCD is hilarious, but at the same time, you can easily see how his condition wreaked such havoc on his life.  Grace's multiple personalities are comically divergent, but come from a place of serious damage, which surfaces from time to time.

Bottom line: a totally adorable love story about two broken people.