{"id":145235,"date":"2014-08-24T12:07:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T19:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=145235"},"modified":"2014-08-24T12:07:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T19:07:12","slug":"the-congress-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2014\/08\/24\/the-congress-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The Congress Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE CONGRESS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Drafthouse Films<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade:\u00a0 B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director:\u00a0 Ari Folman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenplay:\u00a0 Ari Folman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cast:\u00a0 Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Danny Huston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 8\/6\/14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Opens:\u00a0 August 29, 2014 limited.\u00a0 September 5, 2014 in NY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ari Folman, who directed \u201cThe Congress,\u201d states in the production notes that he hopes his new film will make the audience appreciate good, old-fashioned moviemaking, with live actors rather than digitally scanned persons that can be manipulated by animators to play any role desired.\u00a0 Yet given the eye candy, \u201cThe Congress\u201d could have the opposite effect, at least on those people in the theater seats who are open to experimentation in cinema.\u00a0 While the first segment is down-to-earth, dealing with the efforts of a producer and an agent to convince an actress (Robin Wright) to sell her soul and allow herself to be digitalized, most of the remainder, fifty-five minutes\u2019 worth (taking two and one-half years to animate), is psychedelic, resembling an acid trip with stunning imagery.\u00a0 Yet despite all the beauty, the color, the fine acting by Robin Wright, you could not be blamed if you fidget in your seat as the movie is overlong, the dialogue often pretentious, the narrative on the loose side.<\/p>\n<p>Ari Folman, whose terrific \u201cWaltz with Bashir\u201d featured an Oscar nominated animation dealing with the filmmaker\u2019s interviews with fellow soldiers in the 1982 Israeli-Lebanese War, sets his sight on what is not so far out, given the outsourcing that threatens American jobs as corporations use workers in the (cheap labor) developing world for their staffs.\u00a0 Robin Wright, who uses her real name throughout, is now forty-four years old and threatened with obsolescence.\u00a0 Al (Harvey Keitel), her agent, tries to convince her to sign a contract with Jeff (Danny Huston), a producer who wants to have her digitally scanned and thereby used for any and all roles for the next twenty years, during which time she will not be allowed to perform live even in a school play.\u00a0 She needs the money to take care of her young son, Aaron Wright (Kodi Smit-McPhee), who has a rare disease that threatens his hearing and his eyesight, or at least that\u2019s the diagnosis Dr. Barker (Paul Giammati), an ear, nose and throat physician.<\/p>\n<p>There are different segments of the dream-like trip taken by Ms. Wright, the final one breaking all the rules by allowing people in the society to be anyone they want to be.\u00a0 Though Danny Huston\u2019s character may be meant to satirize the blood-sucking studio reps who exploit the performers, it\u2019s difficult to find fault with his win-win proposition.\u00a0 Since Hollywood does not treat actresses all that well once they\u2019ve hit the age of forty-five, he gives Robin Wright the chance to remain young in the minds of those who see these animated creations, and she is well compensated for signing the only contract she may be offered.\u00a0 Not so convincing or appealing is the role of her son, Aaron, who flies a kite around the airport near their home hoping to lure a plane to crash into it, as he believes that would cure him of his rare disease.<\/p>\n<p>The film is loosely based on Stanislaw Lem\u2019s book The Futurological Congress, a sci fi volume loaded with black humor about a hero, Ijon Tichy, who visits the Eighth World Futurological Congress at a Hilton Hotel in Costa Rica.\u00a0 But reading a book and seeing a movie are two different things.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t find a dealer or if you think LSD is not for you, yet you\u2019re curious about taking a \u201ctrip,\u201d you\u2019ll likely be of the market that the producers of \u201cThe Congress\u201d are targeting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unrated.\u00a0 122 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 2014 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story \u2013 B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acting \u2013 B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical \u2013 A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall &#8211; B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Congress-Movie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Congress-Movie.jpg\" alt=\"The Congress Movie\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-145796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Congress-Movie.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Congress-Movie-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE CONGRESS Drafthouse Films Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. 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