The Congress
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Congress |
| Original title | כנס העתידנים |
| Country of production | Israel , France , Germany , Belgium , Poland , Luxembourg |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 123 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ari Folman |
| script | Ari Folman |
| production | Ari Folman, Sébastien Delloye , David Grumbach , Eitan Mansuri , Robin Wright , Diana Elbaum |
| music | Max Richter |
| camera | Michal Englert |
| cut | Nili Feller |
| occupation | |
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The Congress ( Hebrew : כנס העתידנים) is a Realfilm- / animation hybrid in international production from the year 2013. Written and directed by the very loosely based on the story The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem based film submitted by Ari Folman . The premiere took place at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 ; the film received an award, but was received quite differently by critics and audiences. The film opened in German cinemas on September 12, 2013.
action
Robin Wright plays a fictional version of herself in the film: an aging actress who is rarely offered roles. Her son Aaron suffers from Usher Syndrome , which slowly causes him to lose hearing and eyesight. The doctor Dr. Barker ( Paul Giamatti ) works against the disease, but describes Aaron as ahead of his time, as he only exists in what is believed to be astonishing inner life. Robin accepts the offer from Miramount Studios (a composition of the names of existing studios) to be scanned; your computer-generated image should then be reckoned younger and appear in virtually generated films; she receives money for it, but is never allowed to appear again as an actress.
Twenty years later, shortly before the contract expires, the now 64-year-old Robin travels to Abrahama City, an “animation zone” that you can only enter after taking a chemical through which you experience yourself as a cartoon character in a collective illusion. Your digital image has been a blockbuster for a long time; Now she is supposed to speak to the fan base at Miramount's Futurological Congress and also renew her contract with the addition that consumers are not only allowed to see her in stories, but can also take on her character by taking a new chemical. In the animated bizarre world, Robin sings the ballad If it be your will by Leonard Cohen in a dim music club, a spatial illusion of the Berlin punk rock club Wild at Heart . An avatar of Michael Jackson serves sliced lobster in a fine restaurant and in a city park with hanging gardens Pablo Picasso , Marilyn Monroe , the Hindu deity Ganesha , the apple-faced melon man by the surrealist painter René Magritte , revolutionary Che Guevara , cowboy Clint Eastwood and Elvis Presley .
Robin agrees to renew the contract; but when she is supposed to give a speech at the hip, organized congress for the self-celebration of the scene, she speaks out against the proposed technology, which would turn personality into a product, so to speak. While she is being taken away, rebels attack Congress; Dylan Truliner ( Jon Hamm ) helps her, but soon she is arrested by the "Miramount Police". Robin is executed in the animated world and then, still animated, wakes up in a hospital bed; the animated doctors discuss their case; she would believe she was living in an imaginary world. They decide to freeze them until their delusional disease can be cured.
Years later, Robin, who is still in an animated world, is resuscitated and meets Dylan, who leads her through a world in which, as he says, an ego no longer exists because anyone can be what they want. He himself was the chief animator of their computer image before the new technology. The two fall in love, but Robin suspects their son Aaron is in the real world and tries to find him. Dylan gives her a drug that she can use to leave the animated world; but he cannot go with her because he only has one portion - the severance payment for twenty years of work at Miramount. He asks her to only remember his animated self and not look at the real self.
In the real world, Robin finds himself between "dreaming", neglected people who wander through ruin-like buildings in a largely neglected world. The still awake people live in large zeppelins that hover over the city. There she finds Dr. Barker again, who tells her that her son could hardly see or hear for a long time, but waited 19 years for her before he switched to the "other side" 6 months ago; Finding him there is as good as impossible. Robin could return to the animated world; but there she would no longer find the world in which she met Dylan again, since every world only exists in her own head. Nevertheless, the disappointed Robin wants to return to the animated world. She then experiences memories of her son's life, whom she finally finds as an identical copy of Aaron.
inspiration
According to Ari Folman, aspects of the film were inspired by Stanisław Lem's science fiction story The Futurological Congress ; so the protagonists in the film as in the book tumble through various stages of illusion. Folman said in an interview:
“There is certainly nothing based on Lem in the first part of the movie. The second part is definitely different, but I used Lem's The Futurological Congress more as a source of inspiration, rather than the basis of the screenplay. "
“In the first part of the film there is certainly nothing based on Lem. The second part is definitely different, but I used Lem's The Futurological Congress more as a source of inspiration rather than as a basis for the script. "
He later stated that he intended to criticize the entertainment industry.
production
As a French-German-Belgian-Polish co-production, the animation scenes were created in different studios in different countries; the real scenes were filmed in the United States and Germany. Like Folman's earlier film Waltz with Bashir , David Polonsky was artistic director and Yoni Goodman was animation director.
Reviews
The Congress received a largely positive rating from critics of 73% on Rotten Tomatoes in 2017 , but this contrasted with a less positive viewer rating of only 56%. On Imdb, the film received an audience rating of 6.5 out of 10. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper, The Congress “ leaves an ambivalent impression. Without the animated passages, Folman would not have received funding for the film - that is exactly what the various funding bodies wanted to see from the “Waltz with Bashir” director. But holding on to what founded the old fame makes further development impossible. That is exactly the theme of the film. Did Folman not even notice? ”On culture.pl, Bartosz Staszczyszyn wrote that the film adaptation of Lem's text was a promise that had not been kept; the film pretentiously showered viewers with “pop-philosophical motifs”. According to the ZDF / 3 SAT program Kulturzeit , the film is "a clever and visually exciting look at a not so distant future."
In 2013, The Congress received the prize for best animated film as part of the 26th European Film Prize.
Web links
- The Congress in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Congress . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2013 (PDF; test number: 140 545 K).
- ^ Rhonda Richford: Cannes: Ari Folman's' The Congress' to Open Directors' Fortnight . In: The Hollywood Reporter . Prometheus Global Media . April 19, 2013. Retrieved May 14, 2013.
- ↑ Wild at Heart: Kreuzberg is located in California by Karin Christmann on www.tagesspiegel.de, March 25, 2011 (accessed on March 4, 2018), Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH, Berlin
- ↑ Ari Folman on the Genius of Stanislaw Lem - interview ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (March 2011)
- ^ "The Congress, a Film by Ari Folman" (accessed on August 27, 2014)
- ↑ Ambrose Heron: First footage from Ari Folman's The Congress . FILMdetail. May 17, 2011. Retrieved December 25, 2011.
- ^ The Congress . 'Robin Wright' - a fan site. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 25, 2011.
- ↑ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_congress/
- ↑ Andreas Platthaus: Beyond the good years of a woman. In: FAZ.net . September 12, 2013, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ http://culture.pl/en/article/ari-folmans-adaptation-of-a-lem-novel
- ↑ Winners 2013 . In: European Film Awards . European Film Academy. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
