My 298th Review: Should garner awards: a brilliantly different film

Rating: 9/10 (30 December 2009)

We live in an age of cookie cutter movies: action, romantic comedy, drama, thriller, you know what you're getting - it may be comforting both for the movie goer and the producers, but boy this decade stinks when it comes to original outstanding film - rather than a copy of a copy of a copy.
Max and Mary is for those who admire the effort of originality. Telling with great humor, warmth, insight, and a certain darkness, and above all a unique style, it is the story of a small girl in suburban Australia, who is desperately lonely and an outsider, who, by random chance, befriends as a penpal a middle-aged Jewish Asperger: Max.
This is not a charming film (though it has heart) it is a film about radical honestly, and a stark reminder that contact is what makes us human.
The fact that it is also a true story just tops off a truly original piece of work. It should win awards for both style and content.