Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman’s Depressive Stop-Motion Odyssey

AnomalisaDirected by Duke Johnson and Charlie KaufmanOpens December 30
The first movie written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York, went big, in its depressive indie way, attempting to contain the vastness of life in the sets-within-sets of a labyrinthine play that becomes its author’s confounding life work. His follow-up Anomalisa, being a stop-motion animated film (co-directed by Duke Johnson), is equally painstaking, but simpler: it is adapted from an actual play he w