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Mary and Max

  • 17-10-2010 2:34pm
    #1
    johnny_ultimate
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRjB8PEDkM


    Had the pleasure of seeing this at an IFI preview today. Very dark, very funny and ultimately very moving. Excellent stop motion animation telling the story of 8 year old Mary in Australia who randomly picks an address in the New York phone book to send a penpal letter too. It's received by the lonely, peculiar forty year old Jewish man max, and the film follows their contact over the next decade or two.

    Don't let thee animation style fool you, this is very adult material. There were some kids at the screening today, and their parents must have felt quite uncomfortable as heavy topics such as alcoholism, mental illnesses, bullying and all manner of other themes were discussed in extremely frank and brutal detail. It's an hilarious film, though, despite the heaviness of the material - black comedy which never undermines or makes light off the very real afflictions (social, mental and otherwise) that plague these two cartoon characters. Full of imaginative visuals, clever sight gags and a wonderful attention to detail.

    This is an ambitious, dark and funny animated film for adults, and definitely one to check out!


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  • #2
    L'prof
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    Great film and I love this song too:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E3znZoFnN8


  • #3
    bnt
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    I was there too - thought it was a bit too heavy-handed, to be honest. A "message" film, but the message got swamped by all the doom and gloom. I stayed till the end, but I didn't come away with a feeling like "I'm glad I saw that".

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #4
    marco_polo
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    Just saw this over the past couple of days (twice), Amusing, depressing and inspiring in pretty well equal measures. Absolutely great film IMO.


  • #5
    lalee17
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    I saw this film a while back with my friend, I really enjoyed it but he thought it was more depressing than anything else. I thought it was hilarious in a dark way.


  • #6
    marco_polo
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    Maybe it's just me, but I've nothing against a good old depressing film myself :p.

    (I actually didn't think that this one was all that depressing mind, I would say bittersweet would be a better description myself)


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  • #7
    sleepyescapade
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    Just watched this, it was so good! Didn't expect that ending :(


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