The Congress
Crossing between animation and live-action, this science fiction drama stars Robin Wright (Forrest Gump) as Robin Wright, an aging and out-of-work actress who agrees to have her image scanned and kept in a movie-making computer-powered animated world.
When Mirramount Studios shows a desire to 3D scan her bodily image for use in computer-generated movies – with the promise that this “new” Robin will stay forever young – Wright accept the deal and the enormous pay check with it. The following two decades see a dramatic change in the distribution of the 3D Robin, as well as the animated world she resides in. From the Israeli director of the animated documentary Waltz with Bashir.
- Director:
- Ari Folman ('Waltz with Bashir')
- Writer:
- Ari Folman
- Cast:
- Robin WrightHarvey KeitelSami GayleKodi Smit-McPheeDanny HustonPaul GiamattiJon Hamm
Reviews & comments
Variety
pressAdmirers of Waltz With Bashir should seriously adjust their expectations for this trippy cautionary tale.
Total Film
pressWhether visual or thematic, Folman’s bold, eccentric ideas never fail to astound
Time Out
pressFolman takes a determined stride into the past with this dizzying, disjointed, always fascinating live action-animation hybrid
The Guardian
pressIt hunts high and low for the human element in a virtual world. And yet for all its modish gestures, there is something endearingly retro about Folman's handling.
The Dissolve
pressToo much of Ari Folman’s half-animated science-fiction feature The Congress feels just a bit off...
Empire Magazine
pressA fascinating and visually impressive intellectual helter-skelter ride, but the lack of narrative coherence lets down its promising sci-fi concepts and satire.
Variety
pressAdmirers of Waltz With Bashir should seriously adjust their expectations for this trippy cautionary tale.
Total Film
pressWhether visual or thematic, Folman’s bold, eccentric ideas never fail to astound
Time Out
pressFolman takes a determined stride into the past with this dizzying, disjointed, always fascinating live action-animation hybrid
The Guardian
pressIt hunts high and low for the human element in a virtual world. And yet for all its modish gestures, there is something endearingly retro about Folman's handling.
The Dissolve
pressToo much of Ari Folman’s half-animated science-fiction feature The Congress feels just a bit off...
Empire Magazine
pressA fascinating and visually impressive intellectual helter-skelter ride, but the lack of narrative coherence lets down its promising sci-fi concepts and satire.
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