strange but true that one of the most human, said Charlie Kaufman

 

Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, left, and director Charlie Kaufman pose for photographers on the red carpet
for the film Anomalisa, at the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy
Critics are singing the praises of "Anomalisa," which was written by Charlie Kaufman — the imaginative wordsmith who scripted "Being John Malkovich" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" — and co-directed by Kaufman and stop-motion animator Duke Johnson
Tender, funny and unsettling, it follows motivational speaker Michael Stone on a soul-sapping business trip to Cincinnati as he struggles to understand why he feels disconnected from the world and almost everyone in it.
The film was adapted from a play written by Kaufman as Francis Fregoli — a name taken from Fregoli Syndrome, a rare disorder that makes people think everyone else in the world is one person. Kaufman said the syndrome struck him as "a metaphor for some sort of alienation or dissociation."