"Mary and Max" [fr="Mary et Max."] ~ 10/10

Since 3d animation almost became the only way of making feature films, it is so rare to see a "good old" handmade animated movie. Tim Burton and Henry Selick's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" probably was the biggest success in this category, closely followed by Aardman Animation's productions ("Wallace & Gromit"). Now it seems that a "new" director came to this wonderful world of animated clay and stop motion : Adam Elliot's "Mary and Max" is a masterpiece.
Indeed, it features a whole world of dark (and brown) characters with dark (and brown) ideas ; the hours spent to give those life are not the fruit of a computer's work, but mostly _human_ work.
Moreover, a movie opening with Penguin Cafe Orchestra's "Perpetuum Mobile", following its rythm, and featuring variations of the same piece all along the story, cannot be less than a very good one, and obviously _is_ a truly beautiful piece of art. And finally, the fact that the character played by (the so great) Philip Seymour Hoffman has "aspies" ought to be considered an outstanding boldness.