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‘Megalopolis’ Review: Francis Ford Coppola’s Mad Modern Masterwork Reinvents The Possibilities Of Cinema – Cannes Film Festival
Megalopolis review: Francis Ford Coppola’s mad modern masterwork, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, reinvents the possibilities of cinema.
“When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we are free,” says Cesar Catalina, the futuristic architect at the beating heart of Francis Ford Coppola ’s Megalopolis(to give it its full title), a mad eco-sci-fi blockbuster some 40 years in the making. Watching Anthony Mann’s The Fall of the Roman Empire and eating cheese afterwards would be the only way to replicate its fever-dream grandeur, a series of stunning images, carried along by the loosest of plots, that pontificate on the self-destructive nature of humankind, the only species capable of civilizing itself to death. Title: Megalopolis Festival: Cannes (Competition) Director-screenwriter: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Jon Voight, Shia LaBeouf Sales agent: American Zoetrope Running time: 2 hr 18 min
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