You didn’t think the 2013 Cannes Film Festival promotions were done did you? Next up is your first look at Waltz with Bashir director, Ari Folman‘s new film, The Congress, which I featured recently with some first look pictures of star Robin Wright.
Wright plays herself in the film in what is described as loose adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s “The Futurological Congress,” in which she gets an offer from a major studio to sell her cinematic identity: she’ll be numerically scanned and sampled so that her alias can be used with no restrictions in all kinds of Hollywood films – even the most commercial ones that she previously refused. In exchange she receives loads of money, but more importantly, the studio agrees to keep her digitalized character forever young – for all eternity – in all of their films. The contract is valid for 20 years.
The Congress follows Robin as she makes her comeback after the contract expires, straight into the world of future fantasy cinema.
The film serves as the opening night film for the Directors’ Fortnight selection and will have its first press screening the morning of May 16, but if you saw my tentative schedule that I’m putting together, it looks like I will be seeing it at one of two times on the 17th.
Here’s the trailer.
