Mary and Max

Plasticine animator Adam Elliot made the leap into features with this beautiful, melancholic tale of an unlikely penpal correspondence between two misfits; an eight year-old girl in the Melbourne suburbs (Toni Collette), and an obese New Yorker with Asperger Syndrome (Philip Seymour Hoffmann).

Plasticine animator Adam Elliot made the leap into features with this beautiful, melancholic tale of an unlikely penpal correspondence between two misfits; an eight year-old girl in the Melbourne suburbs (Toni Collette), and an obese New Yorker with Asperger Syndrome (Philip Seymour Hoffmann). As with Elliot’s shorts, flawed human beings are rendered with warmth, wit and zero sentimentality, and the depiction of autism puts most Hollywood treatments to shame.

Part of Film Bug and Cafe Neuro, across Colmore Business District from 20-23 March.