Director : Ari Folman
Screenplay : Ari Folman
Music : Max Richter
Camera : Michal Englert
Production : Pandora Filmproduktion
Running time : 123 minutes
Release Date : September 5
Country : France
The Congress, a bewildering action/animation hybrid from Israeli director Ari Folman, is a film with a lot on its mind, but maybe too much. Adapted from ‘The Futurological Congress’, a 1971 science-fiction novel by Stanislaw Lem, the film strips almost everything out of the original text except the bare necessities, trading its critique of the utopianism of youth culture for a jumbled meditation on the future of celebrity in a world of fickle and slippery identities.
Robin Wright stars as a version of herself, an actress who is hitting the glass ceiling. She is growing older, and her reputation as a difficult collaborator has hurt her standing in Hollywood. She lives in a bunker near the airport with her two children, one of whom is suffering from a rare disease that threatens deafness. Her only visitor is her agent (Harvey Keitel), who one day shows up at her door with a curious offer. A studio wants to meet with her about a secret project.
When she arrives, she discovers the plan: as technology advances, there will be no more need for actors; instead, performers will be paid hefty sums to be scanned, so that their moving images can be reproduced in any ways deemed useful, forever and ever. After some reluctance, Wright agrees. But later, the Studio want Wright to sign up everything related to her, essentially licensing her image not just to the movie but to the world.
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