CANNES, FRANCE – In Francis Ford Coppola’s long-awaited sci-fi movie Megalopolis, Adam Driver’s character, visionary architect Cesar Catalina, has the facility to cease time. And right here on the 77th Cannes Movie Competition on Thursday, Coppola appeared to have that energy, too.
The director’s first movie to premiere in competitors at Cannes since 1979’s “Apocalypse Now,” a futuristic, nearly Shakespearean epic in regards to the fall of American society. It was additionally conceived greater than 40 years in the past on the jungle set of the earlier movie, Coppola stated. It was not possible to get tickets, and Journalists cleared their whole schedules simply to ensure they watched one of many press screenings with sufficient time to soak up the loopy, maverick artwork that was certainly about to flash throughout the display screen.
