As executed by writer-director Ari Folman, the concept is tidy, superficially clever, and almost defiantly irrelevant.
We spoke with the director at Cannes about The Congress’s fascinating origins and reception thus far.
While it illuminates the importance of citizen journos, the film also unintentionally highlights their limits.
What we talk about when we talk about Palestine often isn’t the landmass.
Ari Folman intimately understands the way that the human psyche denies, mutates, and embellishes.
After the disappointment of Blindness on day one, I enter day two ready to make the most of my time here in Cannes.