Anomalisa

— [Stream] This is a very odd film with puppet animation (sounds horrible but is really effective), looking at a depressed guy dealing with his life…or maybe not. He’s a motivational author in Cleveland for a speaking engagement. He meets up with an old girlfriend but that doesn’t go well; he picks up an adoring fan, probably to escape the feelings he’s been having. The next day he returns home to his wife and son. All of the actions are off-putting, and there’s kind of a dreamlike feeling throughout, and maybe a doubt as to whether the main character’s real, or others are real, or any of us are real. In the end, I’m not sure what really happened but it was very interesting and triggered plenty of odd feelings. The guy who wrote and directed it also did the screenplays for “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Being John Malkovich”, two other head-scratching films I liked in spite of my confusion about them.

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[2015. 90 min. Directed by Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman. With David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Tom Noonan.]
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/anomalisa-2015