Love, in the broader culture and society, often gets associated with madness, and has since the beginning of time. Writer-director Paul Dalio, emerging off the strength of a couple of shorts (Heartless and The Order), tackles this notion head-on in Touched With Fire, a drama about a pair of bipolar patients (Katie Holmes and Luke Kirby) in a psychiatric hospital who meet and begin a romance that, by tapping into both the beauty and dark side of their conditions, threatens their budding relationship and their ability to maintain their place in the world. (Opens Friday at Esquire Theatre) (R) Not screened in time for review
This article appears in Feb 24 – Mar 2, 2016.
