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The Congress
An aging actress (Robin Wright) agrees to preserve her digital likeness for a studio to use in any future films it likes, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
28 October 1982, Chicago, Illinois, USA
10 January 1980, Euless, Texas, USA
22 January 1981, Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
22 January 1996, Weston, Florida, USA
13 June 1996, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
13 May 1939, Brooklyn, New York, USA
14 May 1962, Rome, Lazio, Italy
29 August 1965, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
31 October 1972, London, England, UK
March 10, 2017
It flits between hallucinatory animation and 'reality', giving small moments of relief and attempting to anchor the story in a desolate Los Angeles.
December 10, 2014
Folman makes one phantasmagorical leap after another, adding a live-action coda, but the visual freedom doesn't expand the story, it abandons it.
September 04, 2014
A half-live-action, half-animated headtrip that throws Robin Wright into a dizzying showbiz paradigm shift.
September 03, 2014
It's almost painful to watch the immense promise of "The Congress," Ari Folman's spectacularly ambitious experiment, dissipate into nothing.
September 04, 2014
An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful.
September 02, 2014
It's like Folman took several different genres-Hollywood satire, speculative dystopian fiction, family melodrama-and fused them into something amorphous and nebulous.
September 03, 2014
A dystopian blend of live-action and animation that acidly comments on some of Hollywood's touchiest issues before drifting off into an existential fog.
July 11, 2016
Ari Folman's follow up to the impressive Waltz With Bashir is bold, daringly different and visually arresting, but it's also a bit too much.
September 05, 2014
The anger drains out of the picture, and we watch in a state of passive appreciation and indifference.
December 10, 2014
Weird sci-fi film that mixes together animation with live action.

