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Anomalisa

Anomalisa

Animation, Comedy, Drama

A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.

The critical consensus

Imaginative, immaculate animation from Charlie Kaufman.

*****Emma Simmonds, The List, 15/02/2016

Anomalisa has more heart, soul and pathos than 99.9 per cent of live-action movies. The best hotel-set love story since Lost In Translation.

*****Ian Freer, Empire Online, 07/03/2016

Charlie Kaufman achieves further artistic greatness with this hilariously funny and horribly real animation about the unbearable loneliness of being.

*****Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 10/03/2016

This is a surprisingly dark film, but it is a lyrical and insightful one. It delves into areas that even the frankest live-action dramas shy away from.

****(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 10/03/2016

You care about them, you feel for them, you want things to work out for them. If that isn’t the ultimate compliment you can pay an animated film then I don’t know what is.

*****Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 11/03/2016

Charlie Kaufman shows us what it is to be human. Plus the best use of Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Girls Just Want To Have Fun’ in the movies.

****(*)Jamie Graham, Total Film, 07/03/2016

Charlie Kaufman’s ingeniously animated tale of a man in midlife crisis doesn’t quite hold together.

***(*)(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 13/03/2016


Features about Anomalisa

Masters of puppets: Charlie Kaufman and the subversive allure of stop-motion

Steve Rose, The Guardian, 07/01/2016

Anomalisa: how Kickstarter got Hollywood's most original writer back on the big screen and Oscar bound.

James Mottram, The List, 22/01/2016

Director Charlie Kaufman's name back in the frame with Anomalisa

Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 27/02/2016

Anomalisa: Animation with a human heart

Emma Jones, BBC, 10/03/2016

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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