Film Review – The Congress

Reviewed at Fantastic Fest 2013

“The Congress” is a particularly dizzying, challenging film that has
something to share concerning the state of Hollywood and its future
appetites, also touching on the struggle of employment opportunities for
actors as they march into old age. There are satiric elements to the
material, but this is no lampoon, instead charging forth as a
brain-bursting, sci-fi/animated endeavor, not unlike a Ralph Bakshi
production, only with a little more self-control. Writer/director Ari
Folman submits an audacious vision of color and content, displaying a
consistent sense of creativity while the script flounders from time to
time trying to dream up encounters worthy of the picture’s curious
premise. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com