NP - The Congress (2013)

[John Bailey]

I saw this on Netflix after two friends (both very smart, both work in
the film industry) absolutely RAVED about it. But I found it so
frickin' infuriating! Although the ending was good. I'm sure some
P-listers will LOVE IT but it's almost the definition of a cult film
in that so many (like me) just won't get its appeal...<div
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On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:00 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Just saw The Congress(2013), a fantastic animated/live-action sci-fi/fantasy
> film written and directed by Ari Folman (Waltz With Bashir), very loosely
> based on the Stanislaw Lem novel, The Futurological Congress. Basically, the
> animated section of the film is a loose, backward rendering of the novel's
> concept. It also contains a couple-three Kubrick references - what more
> could you ask for! It doesn't seem to have gotten a theatrical release in
> America. Just curious - has anyone seen it in a theater here (clearly, Dave
> Monroe would have been most likely to answer that in the affirmative).
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkDyKWKNeaE
>
> Laura
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