The Congress (2013) (original) (raw)

An aging, out-of-work actress agrees to sell her entire identity to a media conglomerate through sophisticated digital scanning. Years later, she discovers that technology has progressed even further than she anticipated.

Director: Ari Folman
Writers: Ari Folman, Stanislaw Lem
Starring: Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Jon Hamm, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Danny Huston, Sami Gayle
Producer: Reinhard Brundig

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Review by Brian Orndorf, September 26, 2013

8 / 10

Reviewed at Fantastic Fest 2013 �The Congress� is a particularly dizzying, challenging film that has something to share concerning the state of Hollywood and its future appetites, also touching on the struggle of employment opportunities for actors as they march into old age. There are satiric elements to the material, but this is no lampoon, instead charging forth as a brain-bursting, sci-fi/animated endeavor, not unlike a Ralph Bakshi production, only with a little more self-control. Writer/director Ari Folman submits an audacious vision of color and content, displaying a consistent se ...read more...

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