Protagonist Francis Ford Coppola today from the pre-opening of the Rome Film Festival. The director, author of masterpieces such as The Godfather saga, Apocalypse Now and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, will present the Italian preview of Megalopolis, his latest work, at 7.30 pm in the iconic Cinecittà Studios.
How to see it
The evening can also be followed in live streaming in the Sala Petrassi of the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone to give accredited members and the public of the Film Festival the opportunity to see the launch of the dreamy new fairy tale imagined by the director. During the day in Cinecittà a special tribute will be paid to the great Italian-American director who returns, after years, to the Roman studios where he saw him preparing some scenes of The Godfather Part III.
Where to meet the director
Tomorrow, October 15 at 6pm, Francis Ford Coppola will meet the Alice nella città jurors, film school students and the public at Sala Sinopoli of the Parco della Musica Auditorium: during the meeting, organized by Alice nella città in collaboration with the Rome Film Festival, the director will celebrate his more than sixty-year career that made him one of the most important and famous masters of the Seventh Art. On the same day, the mayor of the Capital City of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, will receive Coppola in the Capitol to dedicate a special tribute to him from the city.
What is the film about?
Megalopolis will be in cinemas from October 16 distributed in Italy by Eagle Pictures. Written, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, the film stars Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne.
A brilliant artist with the power to stop time takes on an ultra-conservative mayor to save the dying world and inspire hope. Megalopolis is a Roman epic set in fictional modern America. The city of New Rome is changing, creating bitter conflicts between Cesar Catilina, a great artist who seeks to create a utopian and ideal future, and his nemesis, Mayor Franklin Cicerone, reactionary and tied to a regressive, greedy and corrupt status quo. . Meanwhile Julia, the daughter of the mayor who is in love with Cesar Catilina, arrives, and she has to choose her loyalty and ask what humanity deserves.