english below
MARY AND MAX is een indringende klei-animatiefilm uit 2009 van Adam Elliot over de bijzondere vriendschap tussen de jonge Mary (ingesproken door Toni Collette) en de oudere Max (Philip Seymour Hoffman), die het syndroom van Asperger heeft. Hun correspondentie brengt aangrijpend in beeld hoe eenzaamheid, communicatie en relaties ons zowel kunnen verrijken als compliceren.
“MARY AND MAX (…) is a look at mental illness and how those affected see their world and move through it, as strange as that might be to us. It’s about people who feel disaffected, lost, scared, stupid, abandoned, or helpless finding connection no matter where they are or who they are. We will all go through great highs and crushing lows, but the connection we have between dear friends is the great truth in the end. MARY AND MAX is an emotional masterwork, an eternally sweet, sensitive and strange film, and one of the best that Australian cinema has to offer.”
Christopher John, The Curb
ENG
The film is in English with Dutch subtitles
MARY AND MAX is a pervasive claymation of 2009 by Adam Elliot about a special friendship between the young Mary (voiced by Toni Collette) and the elder Max (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who has the Asperger syndrome. Their correspondence is a poignant visualization of how loneliness, communication and relationships can enrich as well as complicate us.