The Congress
New York Jewish Film Festival 2014
January 8 - 23, 2014
New York Premiere!
Robin Wright plays an aging actress who signs away the right to her digital image (and perhaps more) in this mix of live action and psychedelic animation from the director of the Oscar-nominated Waltz with Bashir.
New York Premiere!
Mixing live-action and psychedelic animation, The Congress is the highly anticipated new film by Ari Folman, director of the acclaimed, Oscar-nominated Waltz with Bashir. Robin Wright plays an aging, out-of-work actress (named Robin Wright) who reluctantly accepts her final offer: preserving her digital image for future Hollywood productions over which she will have no control. Twenty years later, she enters a “restricted animated zone,” where she rocks the complacent film/pharmaceutical industry, and finds out, with the help of an animated character voiced by Jon Hamm, what it was she really signed away. This haunting and provocative film features strong performances by Harvey Keitel, Paul Giamatti, and Kodi Smit-McPhee as Wright’s young son. A Drafthouse Films release.
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