Michael, a famous motivational speaker, copes with life's disappointments. His life changes when he meets Lisa.
Michael, a famous motivational speaker, copes with life's disappointments. His life changes when he meets Lisa.
Seven years after making his directorial debut with Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman finally makes his return to the big screen with Anomalisa, which screened last night at AFI Fest in Hollywood. Armed with a simple yet ambitious script, this film marks his first foray into stop motion animation. Fans of Charlie Kaufman's work (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) will recognize the same types of identity-centric themes in Anomalisa, which follows a successful self-help author named Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis) who can't escape the mundane nature of his life while on a business trip to Cincinnati, until he meets a unique young woman named Lisa (voiced by Jennifer Jason Leigh). On paper, it may not sound like much, but the brilliance of Charlie Kaufman's story is illuminated so breathtakingly through stop motion in ways that mere words can hardly describe.
‘Anomalisa’ Review: Charlie Kaufman Reinvents Stop Motion
There is a common movie marketing technique that I call "title-checking," which is often employed when a filmmaker/producer's movies have more recognition than the people who made them. For example, one of the Paddington trailers states "From the producer of Harry Potter," which certainly says a lot more to your average movie-goer than "From producer David Heyman." I bring this up because, if such a tactic would ever be used for the stop motion masterpiece Anomalisa, it would make for one of the most bizarre and wide-ranging promotional blurbs in cinematic history. Check this out: "From the writer of Being John Malkovich and the producers of Community, Robot Chicken and You're Next..." These are the diverse minds behind Anomalisa, a ray of cinematic hope for originality in Hollywood that very well may be one of the best movies of the year.Seven years after making his directorial debut with Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman finally makes his return to the big screen with Anomalisa, which screened last night at AFI Fest in Hollywood. Armed with a simple yet ambitious script, this film marks his first foray into stop motion animation. Fans of Charlie Kaufman's work (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) will recognize the same types of identity-centric themes in Anomalisa, which follows a successful self-help author named Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis) who can't escape the mundane nature of his life while on a business trip to Cincinnati, until he meets a unique young woman named Lisa (voiced by Jennifer Jason Leigh). On paper, it may not sound like much, but the brilliance of Charlie Kaufman's story is illuminated so breathtakingly through stop motion in ways that mere words can hardly describe.
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