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What it's about. The take. Putting the inherent eeriness of stop motion animation to perfect use, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's Anomalisa create a legitimately disturbing experience of a man's paranoid delusions, as he tries desperately to make a real human connection while perceiving everyone around him as the same person.
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Dec 30, 2015 · By Michael Phillips. Dec. 29, 2015 6:05 PM PT. Chicago Tribune. Sad, beautiful, the wittiest film of the year, “Anomalisa” takes place largely in a hotel room in Cincinnati, where a customer...
Feb 20, 2016 · In a sea of blandness, repetition and in-distinction, an insecure young woman named Lisa Hesselman (Jennifer Jason Leigh) stands out from the crowd and captivates Stone in ways he couldn’t earlier perceive. He declares her an anomaly and retitles her “Anomalisa”.
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- Charlie Kaufman makes the foray into animation with this brilliant, engrossing feature.
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By Josh Lasser
Updated: Apr 30, 2019 8:41 pm
Posted: Jan 4, 2016 11:11 pm
Quite regularly there are animated movies released that are fun for children; slightly less regularly there are animated movies that adults can enjoy as much as children; and then, very rarely, there are animated movies made solely for adults. The utterly wonderful stop-motion Anomalisa falls into this last category.
Directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, with a screenplay by Kaufman, Anomalisa is the story of one man's trip to Cincinnati. The man, Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis), is in town for one night to speak at a customer service convention the next day. Michael has an interesting issue – everyone around him looks and sounds similar.
It is a funny prospect for the audience, and there is a lot of humor in the movie generated by it, but we can also feel Michael's fear as well. As an audience we know that the reason everyone looks and sounds similar is because they are all voiced by Tom Noonan and created by the filmmakers to look alike. Michael, however, has no idea what is going on. It is something that seems to have been his norm for a while now, but not something that he understands.
Charlie Kaufman's movies ask us all to think about who we are, the world we live in, and just why we do what we do and this one is no different. Anomalisa takes a small story about one man spending one night in Cincinnati and through it opens our eyes to the choices we make in life. Among other things, it questions whether we differentiate the peop...
Mar 7, 2016 · What Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa is all about is the sterility, emptiness and screamingly predictable tedium of modern life, and the inability of people to connect with one another. The twist?
Dec 29, 2015 · “Anomalisa” is a recognizably Kaufmanesque creation in its anarchic and mordant humor, its singular narrative beats and especially in its preoccupations (identity, authenticity, loneliness,...
