Revealed16. Might 2024, 19:52
CannesFrancis Ford Coppola on the crimson carpet for “Megalopolis”
The director of “The Godfather”, the dean of the competitors at 85, is competing for the third Palme d’Or.
Surrounded by actress Aubrey Plaza and her granddaughter Romy, Francis Ford Coppola greets the gang on the 2024 Cannes Movie Competition.
AFP
Straw hat and white tuxedo, Francis Ford Coppola walked the crimson carpet on Thursday for the presentation of “Megalopolis”, essentially the most anticipated second of the Cannes Movie Competition, which the legendary director dreamed of for 4 twenty years.
Dean of the competitors at 85, director of “The Godfather”, “Apocalypse Now” and “Secret Dialog” is competing for a 3rd Palme d’Or, which might be historic.
He climbed the steps on the arm of his granddaughter Romy Mars, the daughter of the movie Sofia Coppola, after standing on the crimson carpet to the music of “The Godfather”, collectively along with his actors Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Jon Voight, Shia Labeouf, Laurence Fishburne , Aubrey Plaza or Talia Shire, his sister.
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He acquired a five-minute ovation within the Palais des Festivals, earlier than the lights went out.
The largest secret is stored till the tip of the official screening, at 9:30 pm of his movie, uncommon and with the testamentary style through which Coppola has swallowed up a part of his fortune.
With a funds of 120 million {dollars}, this movie is concerning the destruction of a metropolis that has been remembered by New York for greater than forty years. Coppola deserted the challenge after the September 11, 2001 assaults in the USA, earlier than resuming it.
“When does an empire die? Does it fall at a horrible time?,” asks the transfer within the trailer.
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Introduced as a 2h18 science fiction movie, projected on an IMAX display, “Megalopolis” revolves across the destruction of a megalopolis and its reconstruction which performs out between an architect (Adam Driver) and the mayor of town (Giancarlo Esposito).
It’s a movie about “a person who has a imaginative and prescient for the long run” and talks concerning the “battle” between this imaginative and prescient and the “traditions of the previous”, Coppola confided in 2019, on the Lumière Competition the place she was distinguished. “I might say it is essentially the most formidable movie, much more formidable than ‘Apocalypse Now’.”
Sufficient to salivate movie followers all over the world, who’re as enthusiastic about his movies as his epic shoots, beginning with the “Apocalypse Now”, deliberate to final for a couple of weeks and finally lasted 238 days.
Coppola, a drug addict, additionally had bouts of paranoia, misplaced round forty kilograms and needed to mortgage his property to finance the movie. The funds, which was initially 13 million {dollars}, will improve to 30 million, making it on the verge of destruction.
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“Coppola is a pioneer,” recollects Tim Grey, a veteran of movie journalism in the USA who now works for the Golden Globes group. “He all the time took large dangers. And his profession defied logic,” he mentioned lately.
The cinema large additionally acknowledged that he wished to movie a love story “earlier than he leaves”. That is achieved with the couple fashioned by Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel (“Recreation of Thrones”) in “Megalopolis”.
“Everybody anticipated Francis Ford Coppola to proceed making movies. We knew that he had determined to make this movie and finance it along with his personal cash,” mentioned Thierry Frémaux, basic delegate of Cannes, on Monday earlier than the beginning of the Competition.
“It is superb that this 85-year-old man behaves like an impartial filmmaker, like an artist who desires to come back and present his work. Cannes is necessary to him and it is very important Cannes.”
An excellent testomony movie or a cursed and disproportionate work? The press is making predictions and has revealed testimonials from members of the manufacturing describing a chaotic shoot.
The director of the “Godfather” trilogy has not directed a characteristic movie since “Twixt”, launched in 2011, and it appeared that he needed to commit himself to his different ardour, wine, the proprietor of many vines.
This was with out counting this challenge that he devoted to his spouse Eleanor, who died on April 12, to whom he was married for sixty years.
(AFP)