Three faces, three voices, and a whole load of puppets. A film that could only be from Kaufman’s brain – but what happens when it reaches yours? George Seabrook investigates.

Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson are the directors of 2015’s Anomalisa; based on a play of the same name, it is a masterfully created stop motion picture in which a lonely help author Michael (voiced by actor David Thewlis) sees everyone the same until he meets a certain special woman, Lisa (voiced by Jennifer Jason Leigh),…