The Congress
Ari Folman is set to return to the director's chair this summer with his brand new movie The Congress.
The Congress will be the fourth feature film of Folman's directing career, and the first since the stunning Waltz with Bashir back in 2008.
Waltz With Bashir was a stunning animation documentary that was one of the best films of that year. I really cannot wait to see Folman back in the director's chair.
The brand new trailer for The Congress has been released, and it promises to be one of the most adventurous and daring films of 2014:
The Congress is based on the novel of Stanislaw Lem, and has been adapted for the big screen by Folman himself.
Robin Wright will return to the big screen to take on the central role, and is joined on the cast list by Harvey Keitel, Jon Hamm, Paul Giamatti, and Danny Huston.
More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress (Wright, playing a version of herself) decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood.
Through a deal brokered by her loyal, long-time agent (Keitel) and the head of Miramount Studios (Huston), her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
In return, she receives healthy compensation so she can care for her ailing son and her digitized character will stay forever young. Twenty years later, under the creative vision of the studio’s head animator (Hamm), Wright’s digital double rises to immortal stardom.
With her contract expiring, she is invited to take part in 'The Congress' convention as she makes her comeback straight into the world of future fantasy cinema.
The Congress is set to be one of the great alternative films of the summer, and I doubt we will see anything like this for the rest of the year.
The Congress is released 15th August.
