Anomalisa

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Movie
German title Anomalisa
Original title Anomalisa
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Duke Johnson ,
Charlie Kaufman
script Charlie Kaufman
production Duke Johnson,
Charlie Kaufman,
Dino Stamatopoulos ,
Rosa Tran
music Carter Burwell
camera Joe Passarelli
cut Garret Elkins
synchronization

Anomalisa is a stop-motion - feature film by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson from the year 2015. The work is based on an already ten years earlier than the play written script of Kaufman. Anomalisa was nominated as the best animated feature film for the Academy Awards 2016 and received a total of 18 film prizes as well as being nominated for around 60 other honors.

Content and presentation

Michael Stone is the author of a book on self-help and motivational training in customer service and is currently in Cincinnati to present his work at author readings . His perception of other people is disturbed: Everyone has the same face and the same (male) voice for him. Even when he calls his family, he only hears their voices distorted.

Later he calls on a past love he left behind without explanation. The suicide note she sent later is still in his head, but his thoughts about the author are blurred. The two spontaneously arrange to meet in the hotel bar. When Stone invites the former lover to his room, there is another break. In a drunk state, he ends up in a sex shop that he thought was a toy store .

Back in his room he hears a female voice from the hallway that does not fit into the monotony of his perception and then knocks on the doors of his neighboring room, looking for the owner of the voice. So he meets Lisa and her colleague Emma, ​​who have come especially for his reading. Lisa has average looks, a scar on her face, and low self-esteem. Stone asks Lisa because of her voice and her individual appearance to his hotel room after an evening together. You have sex . The following night Stone plagued nightmares, and the next morning Lisa began to adjust his perception to the universal faces and voices. The lecture on his book becomes confused and full of self-doubt.

At the end of his journey, Stone returns home and does not recognize either her or the guests at the surprise party that his wife has organized. Here, too, all faces look the same to him, all voices sound the same. He is sitting alone on a staircase. Finally, he receives mail from Lisa, who wishes to see them again under different circumstances.

production

The script for the film is a conversion of the script by Kaufman, who then appeared as Francis Fregoli (based on the Fregoli syndrome ).

Financing of the film - at the time as a 40-minute work at most - in the amount of 400,000 US dollars was sought via Kickstarter.com , as a result of the success there, a further funding commitment from Starburns Industries made it possible to expand the material to feature film length.

The dolls used were made by 3D printing .

For the sound engineering among others was Aaron Glascock responsible.

synchronization

The synchronization took place at FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH in Munich . The dialogue book was written by Klaus Hüttmann and the dialogue was directed by Solveig Duda .

role Original speaker Voice actor
Michael Stone David Thewlis Frank Röth
Lisa Hesselman Jennifer Jason Leigh Caroline Ebner
all other Tom Noonan Christian Weygand

Criticism & Awards

Anomalisa was received positively. The number of film awards is 18 and the nominations are 58. In the Internet Movie Database , the film received an average rating of 7.2 stars, Rotten Tomatoes cites 91% positive reviews from 244 reviews, and the film received 88 points on Metacritic through 46 reviews.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Anomalisa . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for Anomalisa . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ kickstarter.com/anomalisa , Kickstarter.com - site. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ Steven Zeitchik: Charlie Kaufman breaks hiatus on own terms in 'Anomalisa' at Telluride , Los Angeles Times - Website, September 4, 2015. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
  5. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Anomalisa. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Awards. Internet Movie Database , accessed February 16, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman: Anomalisa. January 21, 2016, accessed February 19, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Anomalisa. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Anomalisa. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .