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Dec 29, 2015 · The characters in “Anomalisa” unsettle. Their plight makes you think about 21st century loneliness, despair and alienation— subjects that would be unpalatable if Kaufman didn’t write his characters so compassionately and with such dry humor.
In a way, knowing the Fregoli factoid is a distraction, because it tempts us to think this is a movie about a fictional character with a mental problem. Michael Stone isn't a psych textbook chapter, he's a cautionary tale.
Jan 14, 2016 · The directors of the best movie of 2015, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, talk about making a masterpiece in our Anomalisa interview.
Jan 2, 2016 · Anomalisa is a fine example of how bleak storytelling should be. At first it might seem spacey and tough to unravel, but once you find that pinhole of context the scope of its narrative widens to greater depths.
Given all the details to the film, I was curious to come here and read some of the discussion threads to see how others had interpreted it and was surprised that there wasn't more talk about the meeting between Michael and his ex girlfriend specifically where he asks her about a "change".
Mar 8, 2016 · The only unusual detail is that Anomalisa, despite being soaked in unvarnished humanity, is told through startlingly lifelike, eerie puppets. These are not the chintzy marionettes of Team America: World Police. Instead, the puppets are an unsettling cross between the convincingly human and blatantly artificial.
Dec 30, 2015 · The character, based visually on co-director Johnson’s ex-brother-in-law according to Johnson, is given the precisely right vocal inflections by David Thewlis.
