Review: Charlie Kaufman's 'Anomalisa' will break your heart
They bore our protagonist Michael Stone (voiced by David Thewlis) to death.
[...] this feeling that he's the only individual on the planet among all these clones might be the cause of his unravelling.
In this very R-rated stop-motion animated feature, scripted by Charlie Kaufman (writer of "Adaptation." and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") and co-directed by Kaufman and Duke Johnson, we spend one day with this sad sack narcissist on an overnight trip to Cincinnati.
Michael bursts out of his room like the owner of this voice is his last chance for survival, frantically knocking on random hotel room doors to find her.
Leigh's nuanced vocals bring what could have been a slip of a character to life.
[...] Lisa is basically a girl in an adult woman's body.
The fact that Kaufman (his follow up to "Synecdoche, New York") and Johnson (his first feature) accomplished all of this with puppets is all the more astounding.
Sometimes art needs to splash us with cold water to give us an experience that is not just passive enjoyment, but active introspection.
Anomalisa," a Paramount Pictures release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "strong sexual content, graphic nudity and language.