Francis Ford Coppola on Thursday premiered his self-financed opus “Megalopolis” at the Cannes Film Festival, unveiling a wildly ambitious passion project the 85-year-old director has been pondering for decades.
Giancarlo Esposito, from left, Chloe Fineman, Nathalie Emmanuel, director Francis Ford Coppola , Adam Driver , Aubrey Plaza , and Jon Voight pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘Megalopolis’ at the 77th Cannes Film Festival . Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola brings family members in addition to the stars of his new film ‘“Megalopolis” including Adam Driver , Aubrey Plaza , Laurence Fishburne, Nathalie Emmanuel and Shia LaBeouf on the Cannes red carpet.
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola brings family members in addition to the stars of his new film ‘“Megalopolis” including Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Laurence Fishburne, Nathalie Emmanuel and Shia LaBeouf on the Cannes red carpet. The cast includes Aubrey Plaza as an ambitious TV journalist named Wow Platinum, Giancarlo Esposito as the mayor, Laurence Fishburne as Cesar’s driver and Shia LaBeouf as an unpleasant cousin named Claudio.#MeToo struggled to find traction in France.
In numerous places in “Megalopolis,” Coppola, who once penned the book “Live Cinema and its Techniques,” experimentally pushes against filmmaking convention. At a screening Thursday, Jason Schwartzman emerged mid-film, walked across the stage to a microphone and posed a question to Driver’s character on the screen above.
Several weeks ahead of Cannes, Coppola privately screened “Megalopolis” in Los Angeles. Word quickly filtered out that many were befuddled by the experimental film they had just watched. “There are zero commercial prospects and good for him,” one attendee told Puck.
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