Today's entry grows weirder by the description. An Australian animated film (I don't recall Australia ever making any animation...) about the pen-friendship between a little Aussie girl and a middle aged fat New York.
Both are desperately lonely in their world and struggle to get along and make sense of it. Together, they become co-conspirators and find solace in the others letters.
Writer and director, Adam Elliot likes skirting very close to very uncomfortable comedy; like every 2mins something almost heartbreaking almost happens but he reigns it in before it does and that's his skill. Mary and Max is consistently on the verge of something tragic happening but it continues to be warm and funny. As well as Elliot writing, this film has life breathed into it by narration by Barry Humphries and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, playing Max. Hoffman Max is caught perfectly between Moe the Bartender and James Gandolfini.
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