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Regent Theatre, Commercial Rd. Yarram 3971. Phone: 5182 5420. Email the Regent office |
The wonderful MARY AND MAX screening for one night only in Yarram Screen Australia’s Regional Digital Screen Network is delighted to present the wonderful Mary And Max for one night only, Saturday2 May at The Regent Theatre, Yarram. Arrive 7.30pm for refreshments before the 8pm screening Mary And Max is the first feature animation from writer/director Adam Elliot and producer Melanie Coombs since their Oscar winninganimated short Harvie Krumpet.After a successful opening-night premiere at the largest independent cinema festival in the U.S, Sundance Film Festival – a first for an Australian film, Mary And Max continues to travel onwards and upwards taking home a Special Mention in the Generation 14plusprogram at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival in Germany. Philip Seymour Hoffman ( Capote) is the invigorating voice of Max and joins an all-star Australian voice cast including OscarNominee Toni Collette ( The Black Balloon, Little Miss Sunshine) as Mary. The film is narrated by Australian legend of stage andscreen, Barry Humphries and features cameos from Eric Bana ( Love The Beast, Romulus, My Father), singer Renee Geyer, musicicon Ian “Molly” Meldrum, Julie Forsyth and John Flaus—both of whom appeared in Harvie Krumpet—and introduces newcomerBethany Whitmore as young Mary. Mary And Max is a simple tale of pen-friendship between two very different people; Mary Dinkle, a chubby lonely eight year old girlliving in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz, a 44 year old, severely obese, Jewish man with Asperger's Syndrome living in the chaos of New York. Sometimes perfect strangers make the best friends. As Mary (Collette) grows up, her friendship with Max (Hoffman) endures her fading marriage to Damien (Bana) and one day she finally decides to pay Max a visit. Spanning 20 years and two continents Mary and Max are drawn together through their confessional letters and survive much more than the average diet of life’s ups and downs. Like Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max is innocent but not naïve, as it takes us on anexhilarating and heart-felt journey that explores friendship, autism, psychiatry, obesity, kleptomania, gender difference, trust, religious difference, agoraphobia and much much more. “This film explores our desires for acceptance and love, no matter how different we are” … “Max is based on my penfriend in New York whom I have been writing to for twenty years. He is such an interesting person and the creation of this film will be a testimony to him and the Archetypal underdog that so many audiences around the world engage with. He, like Max, has Aspergers. My aim is to not just enlighten the world to Aspies, but to demystify the many misconceptions others have about these people, (even the so called experts)”, says Elliot. “ He’s not only a gifted animator, but a master storyteller, and this is close to a work of genius” FILMINK“ A Triumph…Just like Elliot’s Oscar-winning short film Harvie Krumpet, Mary and Max is a celebration of the human spirit’s battlesagainst all adversity ” ROLLING STONE, 4.5 starsDon’t miss this special one-off screening of Mary And Max on the Regional Digital Screen Network!SATURDAY 2 MAY - 8PM SCREENING Arrive 7.30pm for refreshments. The Regent Theatre: 210 Commercial Road, Yarram $10 single/$8 each for a group of five or more. Register for tickets now: bookings@regenttheatre.com.au Phone (03) 5182 5420 for information
www.regenttheatre.com.au
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