Michael Stone is an ordinary man. The author of a bestselling book on modern management, he leaves Los Angeles and his sad marriage for a conference in a hotel in Cincinnati. There, in the impersonal corridors and faceless crowd, he hears the voice of Lisa. An introverted, insecure woman, Lisa immediately attracts Michael’s attention, who finds in her all that is missing in his life...

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Charlie Kaufman does nothing like anyone else. The genius screenwriter who first gained attention with Being John Malkovich and won an Oscar for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind had his directorial debut in 2008 with the extraordinary and unclassifiable Synecdoche, New York, which did not do well at the box office. Seven years later, he's back with a strange, stop-motion film, co-directed by Duke Johnson, which tells a curious love story between two lonely souls. A fantastical sequence in which Stone plunges into a nightmare is pure Kaufman thanks to its mix of the macabre and paranoia. With disarming sincerity, Anomalisa deals with the banality of people and misfortune, the beauty of the ordinary and the prison of reality. His great feeling for emotions is embodied beautifully in a modest and original sex scene, which will long remain etched in the memory of the audience.