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Megalopolis review: Coppola's self-indulgent comeback may be a MEGAFLOPOLIS, writes BRIAN VINER
BRIAN VINER: Let us weep at the hubris of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis: A Fable.
Meanwhile his ex-lover (Aubrey Plaza), a television presenter who glories in the peculiar name Wow Platinum, has gone and married Cesar's rich banker uncle and is busily scheming with the old man's amoral grandson Clodio Pulcher (Shia LaBeouf) to steal his fortune. By now the plot is not so much confusing as labyrinthine, but Coppola ploughs on, using imagery that can't mean anything to anyone but him, and reminding us of his gigantic self-regard (or perhaps, to be more generous, his brazen wit) by having Julia and Cesar discuss names for their unborn child: Sunny Hope for a girl… Francis for a boy. Writer-director Jon Watts tries gamely but not very successfully to give the plot more heft by involving a heroin shipment and a posse of trigger-happy Albanian gangsters, every one of them a screeching caricature, while a jazzy score screams ‘caper movie’ at us.
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