The Congress (2013)
- Directed by
- Yoni Goodman, Ari Folman
- Genre
- drama film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, dystopian film, live-action/animated film
- Country
- Israel, Germany, France, Poland
- Runtime
- 2h 03m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 586 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An aging actress agrees to let a studio scan her body and use a digital clone in any movie they want. Years later she attends a futuristic congress where reality becomes indistinguishable from animation.
melancholicdreamlikespeculativeslow-burnunsettlingcerebralvisually lushbittersweet
What happens
The Congress (French: Le Congrès, Hebrew: כנס העתידנים) is a 2013 English-language live-action/animated science-fiction drama film written and directed by Ari Folman, loosely based on Stanisław Lem's 1971 Polish science-fiction novel The Futurological Congress. It stars Robin Wright as a fictionalized version of herself who agrees to have a film studio use a digital clone of her in any film they want. The film premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival on 15 May 2013. Independent film distributor Drafthouse Films announced, along with Films We Like In Toronto, their co-acquisition of the North American rights to the film and a US theatrical and VOD/digital release planned for 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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