The Congress

[eddvick]

This should be fun, a mixture of live action and animation.

Cartoon Brew says:
The opening film of last month’s the Director’s Fortnight sidebar at Cannes, The Congress is a loose adaptation of Stanislaw Lem’s 1971 sci-fi novel The Futurological Congress, about an aging actress preserving her digital image for a future Hollywood. It stars Robin

Comments

[randy_byers]

I'm definitely curious about this one, although my recollection is that the book pissed me off. Don't remember why!

[darrelx]

At the beginning of the trailer, I was thinking to myself, Wait, is this a remake of "Looker" (a 1981 film by Michael Crichton where actresses were being digitized and then killed off) ... but then it got animated and went in a totally different direction.