Anomalisa is a 2015 stop-motion animated film directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, following a middle-aged customer service expert who perceives every other person as having an identical face and voice until he meets a woman named Lisa at a Cincinnati hotel, an encounter that becomes a surreal meditation on connection and perception. The film was the first R-rated animated feature nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and it won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, the first animated film to receive that award. Its use of stop-motion for an adult psychological drama rather than family entertainment marked a deliberate departure from the medium's usual audience and subject matter.
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What does the name Fregoli have to do with Anomalisa?
It is the pen name on the 2005 play and a reference to the delusion that many people are one person in disguise.
Anomalisa began as a 2005 audio play performed in Los Angeles, credited to the pen name Francis Fregoli. The name refers to the Fregoli delusion, a disorder centered on the belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise. That idea matches the film's central character, Michael Stone, who perceives everyone around him as having an identical face and voice, except for Lisa.
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Anomalisa is a 2015 American adult animated comedy-drama film directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson from a screenplay by Kaufman, based on his 2005 audio play that explores the Fregoli delusion, a term Kaufman used as a pen name for himself.
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Anomalisa is a 2015 American adult animated comedy-drama film directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
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Anomalisa is a 2015 American adult animated comedy-drama film directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson
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Anomalisa is a 2015 American adult animated comedy-drama film directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson from a screenplay by Kaufman, based on his 2005 audio play that explores the Fregoli delusion, a term Kaufman used as a pen name for himself.
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Anomalisa is a 2015 American adult animated comedy-drama film directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson from a screenplay by Kaufman, based on his 2005 audio play that explores the Fregoli delusion, a term Kaufman used as a pen name for himself.
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Anomalisa is a 2015 American adult animated comedy-drama film directed by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson from a screenplay by Kaufman, based on his 2005 audio play that explores the Fregoli delusion, a term Kaufman used as a pen name for himself.
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