2009 · animation · drama
Mary and Max
Directed by Adam Elliot1h 32m2009
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
Our read: Mary and Max (2009) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive animation · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured animation / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- inventive
- intimate
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How Mary and Max feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want claymation friendship that's funny, tender, and quietly heartbreaking.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if loneliness, mental illness, or suicide themes will sit too heavy.
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