Anomalisa (dir. Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson) x VIFF 2015.

Kaufman and Johnson bring an inventive playfulness to the decidedly offbeat Anomalisa. The film is rich in thematic depth and grace in its heartbreaking subject matter. Paramount to all the cinematic workings in the film are its charm and sense of wonder as it captures its characters through fantastical portraits. Expressing the mundane and normal through stop-motion makes the film’s concepts even more visually and narratively impressive.