Charlie Kaufman's stop motion film "Anomalisa" has received the Grand Jury Prize award at Venice Film Festival this year.
According to slashfilm.com, "Anomalisa" is known to be an "unflinchingly real and achingly human masterpiece" due to the main character's deep conversations with himself that shows a person's most vulnerable self.
The production team of the film had only released two photos from the film prior to its trailer and the 2- minute clip will be the "first look at the film's unique aesthetic." The movie's characters show natural human responses and bodily functions such movement of the body while breathing, different body postures as well as a body's movements while having sex.
The main character named Michael, a professional speaker, is voiced by David Thewlis while Jennifer Jason Leigh voiced Lisa, the woman that Michael and changed his life. Included in the cast is Tom Noonan who voiced Michael's inner speech who does not see any life around him.
One of the most captivating line in the trailer is when Michael [David Thewlis] asks himself "What is it to be human, what is to take, what is it to be alive?" These questions alone had piqued the critics' minds and interest in the film.
In a report by telegraph.co.uk, Charlie Kaufman's earlier works which includes Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich and Adaptation have shown what kind of craft he is capable of making.
His film "Anomalisa" is originally base from a play he wrote under a pseudonym of Francis Fregoli. Starburns Industries later bought the rights for the play. They later have decided to turn to Kickstarter, a crowdfunding website, to finance the making if the film. Movie producers and backers had no regrets as the film turned out be brilliant enough to win award from Venice Film Festival.
Robbie Collin of "The Telegraph" said that the film is "upsettingly brilliant, essential, raw, honest and touchingly funny."
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