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Anomalisa Reviews. Anomalisa is one of the most unique animated films I've ever seen, and arguably the most "human" film of the year. Full Review | Aug 2, 2024. Examining "Anomalisa" for the...
- Charlie Kaufman makes the foray into animation with this brilliant, engrossing feature.
- Verdict
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 10, 2016 · Director Charlie Kaufman explains how his first venture into animation with the acclaimed Anomalisa is more emotionally real than human drama.
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Mar 31, 2022 · Why should you Watch This Film? Anomalisa is a Claymation film for adults about a man living a highly mundane life – exemplified by all characters that are not him having the same face and the same voice – who then meets a woman that offers an escape from his boredom.
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Mar 11, 2016 · Though fellow fatalists Woody Allen (when in Dostoevskian mode) and Todd Solondz occupy similar territory, the arrival of Kaufman’s stop-motion drama Anomalisa (co-directed by animation specialist Duke Johnson) reiterates the uniqueness of his surreally skewed metaphysical inquiries.
