Regardless of the blended critiques from critics and audiences, Francis Ford Coppola has given an ideal rating to Megalopolis on Letterboxd.
Earlier this summer time, Megalopolis director Francis Ford Coppola joined Letterboxd, the social cataloguing service the place members can fee and overview movies and preserve observe of what they’ve watched. He hasn’t been too energetic on the service, however he has given Megalopolis a good five-star rating. The divisive movie has been receiving blended critiques from critics and audiences, with the typical Letterboxd rating sitting at 2.9. Coppola additionally gave 5 stars to The Final Showgirl, a movie directed by his granddaughter Gia Coppola.
Regardless of the blended critiques, Megalopolis is clearly a challenge Coppola is captivated with. He spent many years growing the film and even put up $120 million of his personal cash. Whereas it’s a disgrace the film wasn’t the universally acclaimed masterpiece that many had been hoping it might be, of us can’t appear to cease speaking about it. In my ebook, an attention-grabbing failure is extra alluring than one other two hours of forgettable mediocrity.
Our personal Chris Bumbray caught Megalopolis at TIFF, and sadly, he wasn’t a fan. “In the last forty minutes, Megalopolis becomes a real disaster, with so much jam-packed into the movie’s third act that it becomes almost impossible to keep up with it,” Bumbray wrote. “It becomes nonsensical as it races towards its ending. Again, one can’t fault Coppola for his ambition. He financed the movie with money he earned, so he had every right to make exactly the film he wanted to make. But it’s hard to imagine this ever connecting with anyone other than hardcore Coppola devotees or maybe connoisseurs of bad cinema.” You possibly can try the remainder of Bumbray’s overview proper right here.
The official synopsis for Megalopolis reads: “Megalopolis is a Roman Epic fable set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero, the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.” The movie is presently slated to hit theaters on September twenty seventh. I’m wanting ahead to lastly attending to test the movie out for myself.
