Movie Appreciation - Mary and Max

BLIA SFYAD presents our Bi-Monthly Movie Appreciation Event!

The movie we will be screening is titled ” Mary and Max”, which is a bittersweet film about loneliness, mental illness, and friendship by any measure.

Sypnosis:

Mary and Max centres on an unlikely friendship between two people of varying degrees of instability. Mary Daisy Dinkle (Bethany Whitmore and Toni Collette) is an eight-year-old Melbourne girl with a rooster named Ethel, a taste for sweetened condensed milk, and powerful doses of social anxiety and low self-esteem. Max Horowitz (a terrific and unusual performance from Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a 44-year-old, 352-pound New York man with Asperger’s, a lapsed Jewish faith, and an imaginary friend named Mr Ravioli. When Mary picks Max’s name out of a phone book to ask him where babies come from, the pair form a pen-pal relationship that lasts decades.

Details:

Date: 12/2

Time: 1pm - 3pm

Venue: 1750 Van Ness Avenue, San Bao Temple

Prior to the event, a complimentary lunch will be held from 11:30am – 12:30pm.

Event is free but registration is required due to limited spaces.

Photocredit:

http://deanna-crisbacher.blogspot.com/2017/01/world-animation-australia-mary-and-max.html

Abstract taken from:

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/06/19/love-yourself-first-mental-illness-in-mary-and-max