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The Congress , the highly-anticipated follow up to Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir , premiered last month at the Cannes Film Festival, and now Drafthouse Films alongside Films We Like plans to bring it stateside.

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Ambition markedly outstrips achievement in The Congress, a visionary piece of speculative fiction that drops the ball after a fine set-up. Director Ari Folman follows his breakthrough 2008 feature Waltz With Bashir with a different style of animation applied not to a historical war story but to a look at an alternative future based on transfigured ... (more)

The last time we heard anything about The Congress , Ari Folman 's follow-up to his remarkable 2008 film, Waltz with Bashir , was back in 2011 .