Season 1 - 6 x 53 minutes | French Premiere at CANNESERIES Season 9
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Episode 1
Screening of one episode, in the presence of the creator Richard Gadd, the director Alexandra Brodski, and the actors Stuart Campbell and Mitchell Robertson.
Age restriction: 16+
Synopsis
Niall and Ruben are brothers. Not related in blood but the closest you can get. One, fierce and loyal. The other, meek and mild-mannered. Inseparable youth. Brought into each other’s lives through death and circumstance, all they have is each other…
But when Ruben turns up at Niall’s wedding three decades later, everything seems different. He is on edge. Shifty. Not acting like himself. And soon, an explosion of violence takes place which catapults us back through their lives, from the eighties to the present day. Capturing thirty years in the lives of these broken men, Half Man is a six-part series exploring brotherhood, violence, and the intense fragility of male relationships. After all, when things fall apart… it is sometimes the closest relationships which break the hardest.
Note from the artistic direction
Following Baby Reindeer, the series that took the world by surprise in 2024, actor and creator Richard Gadd returns with Half Man, an HBO series of relenting rawness centered on the turbulent relationship between two “brothers”, spanning more than thirty years. Gadd plays one the leads alongside Jamie Bell, and breakout stars Stuart Campbell and Mitchell Robertson, who portray their younger versions.