It’s no small step but another giant leap by Coppola, 85, who feels so strongly about what “Megalopolis” encapsulates that he’s spent some four decades pursuing it
Director Francis Ford Coppola poses for portrait photographs for the film 'Megalopolis', at the 77th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 17, 2024.Of the many quotations and slogans that flitter through Francis Ford Coppola’s idea-stuffed, open-hearted, unabashedly optimistic “Megalopolis,” one that particularly resonates with the director is: “When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we’re free.
In “Megalopolis,” Adam Driver plays Cesar Catilina, a Roman emperor-like figure with the power to stop time in a futuristic New York. He’s an inventor who wants to build a new New York metropolis with a material he’s created called Megalon. In sensibility, he’s more like an artist, though. Cesar quotes “Hamlet,” as well as Emerson, Marcus Aurelius and Ovid. He is, you can’t help but notice, a little like Coppola, himself.
Time is much the subject of “Megalopolis,” a movie 40 years in the making which Coppola says he first began seriously thinking about, he says, after completing 1997’s “The Rainmaker.” He wanted to withdraw from his career and devote himself to more experimental pursuits. “For him to make a film like that at this point in his life I thought was a beautiful thing,” Driver says. “He has conviction and it’s so ballsy. Why is it that he’s doing that at this point in his career and other people aren’t following that example?”
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