Variety
Admirers of Waltz With Bashir should seriously adjust their expectations for this trippy cautionary tale.
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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.
2013Rating: M122 minsIsrael, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, France, Belgium
AnimatedDramaScience Fiction
- Director:
- Ari Folman ('Waltz with Bashir')
- Writer:
- Ari Folman
- Cast:
- Robin WrightHarvey KeitelSami GayleKodi Smit-McPheeDanny HustonPaul GiamattiJon Hamm
The Congress / Reviews
Total Film
Whether visual or thematic, Folman’s bold, eccentric ideas never fail to astound
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Folman takes a determined stride into the past with this dizzying, disjointed, always fascinating live action-animation hybrid
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The Guardian
It 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.
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The Dissolve
Too much of Ari Folman’s half-animated science-fiction feature The Congress feels just a bit off...
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Empire Magazine
A 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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