Richard Brody reviews “Megalopolis,” directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, and Shia LaBeouf.
Coppola, who’s eighty-five and made his first feature in 1963, is one of the most flamboyantly gifted filmmakers of his era, but, for the most part, he has subordinated his pictorial power to dramas of tight-fitting psychology and dutiful realism that have both overwhelmed and repressed it. He became a self-consciously serious director and he rarely cut loose.
Driver, from the day he hit the screen in “Girls,” has been among the most imaginative and spontaneous of actors, and his performance in “Megalopolis” is as essential to the movie’s freewheeling inventiveness as is the role he plays. His Cesar is more than a genius of art and science; he’s a creator of moments themselves, dominating public and private arenas with a showiness that’s redeemed by style.
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