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The Congress rises on the strength of Robin Wright's powerful performance, with enough ambitious storytelling and technical thrills to overcome its somewhat messy structure. Read critic reviews
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An aging actress agrees to preserve her digital likeness for a studio to use in any future films it likes.
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Genre: Sci-fi
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Original Language: English
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Director: Ari Folman
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Producer: Reinhard Brundig, Sébastien Delloye, Piotr Dzięcioł, Diana Elbaum
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Writer: Ari Folman
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Release Date (Theaters): limited
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Release Date (Streaming):
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Box Office (Gross USA): $137.8K
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Drafthouse Films
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Audience Reviews for The Congress
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A totally unique piece that capitalizes on an extensive history of scifi staples, including the book it's based on. This is a perfect film for cinephiles who have an affinity for the surreal and fantastic.
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The Congress strikes me as a film that may well gain an appreciation in years to come. One can tell that a high level of competence and creative ambition went into making the film. The product is substantial and needs more than one viewing to fully digest. I have seen it once, I think it works, and will likely requeue it at some point. Fans of the fantastical, intellectual, and mysterious should definitely give The Congress a view.
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The film has some great and original concepts about the future of imagery and society but doesn't really develop them or the characters clearly enough. Honestly for this to have worked and be truly immersive, the whole thing would need to be around 4 hours long.
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In "The Congress," the actress Robin Wright lives on the edge of nowhere and an airport with her two teenaged children, Sarah(Sami Gayle) and Aaron(Kodi Smit-McPhee). Excited to get an offer of any sort, she travels with her longtime agent, Al(Harvey Keitel), to meet with Jeff Green(Danny Huston), the chief of Miramount Studios. It turns out to be something totally different from what she was expecting. Namely, as Jeff puts it, it is to be scanned into a computer, and as he puts it the last deal she will ever make. She declines it flat. But then realizing how much care Aaron will require as he is slowly going deaf and blind, she agrees, with a few conditions. "The Congress" is a movie about transitions, willing and not, that only begins with this possibly being a transition for director Ari Folman towards live action fiction movies. As far as this being about a transition for Robin Wright, this movie serves as a critical exploration of the difficulty actresses finding work as they get older.(Jeff Green scoffs as Robin's leaving porn off the list. "At her age?" You'd be surprised...) That's only the beginning as "The Congress," criticizing other science fiction movies as dumb, does the one thing that all decent science fiction movies should be in being about ideas, namely how technology does not always spur on creativity, with hand drawn animation being a prime example used while never forgetting the human element involved. Yes, some of that can be filed under a narrative stretch, but the occasional spectacular imagery makes up for that, not only the animation but also the former hangar and the scanning scene.
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