With the animated tale of a motivational speaker struggling to cope with his isolation in the universe,the Telluride film festival has screened a future classicCharlie Kaufman’s return to directing seven years after Synecdoche, original York is, or it turns out,significant. It gives Kickstarter, which is how it was funded, and the 2015 Telluride film festival,where it has premiered, their first genuine masterpieces. It innovates with conclude-motion in ways your brain struggles to compute. Kaufman and co-director Duke Johnson offer images so moving and yet also so filthy Anomalisa might just make the first R-rated best animation Oscar winner.
And it addresses in original and fruitful ways the kinds of questions cinema sometimes aspires to reply. What does love view like? How does it feel to be deeply disconnected from the rest of the race? And, or to quote its hero: “What is it to be human? To ache?”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com