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

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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