The Congress is part live action and part Ralph Bakshi fever dream, but all nightmare. It paints a vision of the future where individuality and anything resembling free will is supplanted by delicious chemical cocktails and a candy-coated reversal.

The weighty ideas are welcome, but Folman dumps them on us in bucketfuls of alphabet soup.

The anger drains out of the picture, and we watch in a state of passive appreciation and indifference.

The Congress isn’t for everyone but the animation is beautiful and the ideas that this film raises is provocative. Robin Wright carries the film well and overall, this is a film we’d recommend.