‘Bafflingly shallow’ or ‘staggeringly ambitious’? Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis splits critics

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Coppola’s passion project screens at Cannes film festival to seven-minute standing ovation, but reviews have been polarising

Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Francis Ford Coppola, Romy Croquet Mars, Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter and Talia Shire at the Megalopolis red carpet at Cannes film festival on Thursday. Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Francis Ford Coppola, Romy Croquet Mars, Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter and Talia Shire at the Megalopolis red carpet at Cannes film festival on Thursday.

In one scene, Driver recites Hamlet’s famous “to be, or not to be” soliloquy in full. “Why? I’m not exactly sure,” Ebiri wrote. “But it sure sounds good.”reported a similar “mishmash of acting styles” with dialogue “either bluntly declarative or totally impenetrable”. At its Cannes press screening, according to the New York Times, the film took a meta turn when a man in the theatre began asking questions to Driver’s character, who answered onscreen.

IndieWire went even further. The film “doesn’t show us the future of cinema so much as it galvanises our desire to ensure it has one”,, who also called Megalopolis a “transcendently sincere manifesto about the role of an artist at the end of an empire”.

 

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