2015 · animation · drama · romance
Anomalisa
Directed by Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman1h 31m2015
An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.
Our read: Anomalisa (2015) reads as a sombre, measured, surreal animation · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, gentle animation / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- surreal
- signature
- intimate
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How Anomalisa feels to watch.
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“You want lonely adult stop-motion that turns midlife numbness into fragile human connection.”
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