NP - The Congress (2013)

[David Morris]

"the Congress" isn't on Nrtflix now.

On Sunday, December 13, 2015, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <javascript:;>>
> 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
> > - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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