It’s no surprise Francis Ford Coppola wanted to premiere his latest cinematic effort Megalopolis at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. It’s just a shame that with his $120,000,000 comeback film Megalopolis , he’s made possibly one of the worst films I’ve ever seen. And I say that with the greatest of respect for the legendary, Oscar-winning auteur.
I still can’t stop thinking about it, weeks on. Alongside the triumphs of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, he’s had other misses in his career like One From the Heart. That’s what happens when you take wild swings – an admirable quality in and of itself – but Megalopolis is by far the most startling, grand and at times incomprehensible film that he’s made.
The baffled buzz over Coppola’s film, his first standard (well, as much as he gets) production since 2011’s Twixt, kicked off in March after its unveiling to the film industry. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video Reports followed that it was ‘bats**t’ with industry insiders predicting Coppola’s independent flick would struggle to find distribution, which it has. That came across as utterly ridiculous to the director’s fans – but having seen it, I can understand the confusion.
It’s a feat to totally break with convention when it comes to a film, for which Coppola should be applauded – and also helps point to the polarised reception Megalopolis has received. Some.
