The Congress (2013)
Directed by Ari Folman
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
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Like her real-life counterpart, this Wright didn’t pursue pop superstardom after “The Princess Bride” (1987) and “Forrest Gump” (1984).
It’s a helluva monologue, the gist of which — elaborated in the next few scenes — lambasts her for putting her family first (particularly the care of her ailing son Aaron, played by Kodi Smit-McPhee ) instead of making good on the promise of “The Princess Bride ” in her career.
And the whole thing, bizarrely, is centered on Robin Wright, who plays “herself”—star of The Princess Bride, Forrest Gump, etc.—in a context that bears virtually no relation to her actual status in Hollywood.
The CEO of the amusingly named Miramount studios (a wonderfully oily Danny Huston) wants to license the digital likeness of the star of “The Princess Bride” — providing he can star “her” in the kind of movies that the “real” Robin spurns.
Wright’s character is the actress born in Dallas in 1966, who starred in the 1987 hit “The Princess Bride,” appeared on the ’80s TV series “Santa Barbara” and co-starred as Tom Hanks’ love interest, Jenny, in the 1994 mega-hit, “Forrest Gump.”
Robin Wright (of Forrest Gump and TV’s House of Cards) stars as “a version of herself,” an actress in her mid-40s who was heralded as the next great thing when she was the ingénue star of The Princess Bride 20 years previous.
"The Congress" has to be both the dystopian minutia that Jonathan Pryce suffers through in " Brazil ," and the high-flying daydreams into which he escapes.
With echoes of Terry Gilliam's Brazil, the film grows into a wild fantasy – a kind of Who Drugged Roger Rabbit? – with an alternate reality where celebrity's essence can be ingested and an animated rebellion breaks out, linking Robin with Dylan (Jon Hamm), a former animator of her digital character who has long loved her.
Like her real-life counterpart, this Wright didn’t pursue pop superstardom after “The Princess Bride” (1987) and “Forrest Gump” (1984).
And the whole thing, bizarrely, is centered on Robin Wright, who plays “herself”—star of The Princess Bride, Forrest Gump, etc.—in a context that bears virtually no relation to her actual status in Hollywood.
Wright’s character is the actress born in Dallas in 1966, who starred in the 1987 hit “The Princess Bride,” appeared on the ’80s TV series “Santa Barbara” and co-starred as Tom Hanks’ love interest, Jenny, in the 1994 mega-hit, “Forrest Gump.”
The plan is to keep her “forever young,” not only by reviving her Princess Bride , along with Jenny from Forrest Gump , but also by casting a young “her” in new parts.
Robin Wright (of Forrest Gump and TV’s House of Cards) stars as “a version of herself,” an actress in her mid-40s who was heralded as the next great thing when she was the ingénue star of The Princess Bride 20 years previous.
Robin Wright stars as Robin Wright, an actress of fading stature in the Hollywood system that made her famous with hits like The Princess Bride and Forrest Gump.
If you liked “Donnie Darko” and David Cronenberg’s “Naked Lunch”; if you enjoyed “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” and Michael Haneke’s early films – and the underappreciated third film of George A. Romero’s zombie trilogy, and Zack Snyder’s “Sucker Punch” – well, then I think you’re good with “John Dies at the End.” (You might have to admit that you kind of liked Guy Ritchie’s idiotic work of Madonna-informed mysticism, “Revolver,” and you certainly have to be excited about Giamatti’s upcoming role in Ari Folman’s “The Congress,” adapted from a novel by Polish sci-fi cult hero Stanislaw Lem. ) Like I say, self-limiting.