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The Congress

2013

Ari Folman

Animation, Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Danny Huston ...

6.7

6,067

Sci-Fi. Drama. Animation More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress (Robin Wright, playing a version of herself) decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent (Harvey Keitel) and the head of Miramount Studios (Danny Huston), her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A visionary piece of speculative fiction that drops the ball after a fine set-up"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tom Huddleston Time Out	"Ari Folman takes a determined stride into the past with this dizzying, disjointed, always fascinating live action-animation hybrid (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Apart from its general knock against ageism in Hollywood, 'The Congress' doesn’t have much insight to offer on the subject."	NEU
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"'The Congress' contains tricks aplenty and ideas in abundance. The problem comes in herding these scattered, floating elements towards a satisfying whole. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"A fascinating and visually impressive intellectual helter-skelter ride, but the lack of narrative coherence lets down its promising sci-fi concepts and satire. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU

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