The film explores the story of Michael Stone, an author on books on customer service who is unable to interact with other people. There is still hope for Michael, who one night feels that his life has changed completely, especially when he was on a routine business trip and meets a stranger who is changing his worldly life.
What drives the film is a scowling suspicion that modern man is a mechanized being, created as if on an assembly line, and stripped bare of individuality-a product, like any other merchandise.
A darkly reflective film that doesn't stagnate in pessimism, a creation full of potential readings that translates into a unique visual and sonorous experience. [Full review in Spanish]
Kaufman, the mind behind "Being John Malkovich" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," possesses an artistic sensibility unlike any other filmmaker working today. That sensibility informs every word and frame of "Anomalisa" ...
The brilliant Charlie Kaufman makes a very welcome return to our screens, co-directing his own script with Duke Johnson, in this haunting and humorous stop-motion treatise on human relationships.
Whether Michael Stone has really turned a corner in his life, or merely enjoyed a brief distraction from all that troubles him, is left unresolved at Anomalisa's conclusion, but this much is certain: The audience won't soon forget what it has experienced.
