CANNES, May 17 — Francis Ford Coppola shrugged off the vast fortune he personally risked on his highly polarising new film, as Emma Stone and Richard Gere prepared to light up the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival today.
Coppola has yet to secure a US distributor for the US$120 million movie for which he sold a stake in his California vineyard to self-finance.“The money doesn’t matter,” said the 85-year-old director of classic movies such as“My children, without exception, have wonderful careers without a fortune. We are fine. It doesn’t matter,” he said.
The film opens with a warning that US democracy could fall to the whims of a few power-hungry men, as the Ancient Roman Republic once did, and it features Shia LaBeouf as a dangerous scion who embraces populist politics. “There is a trend happening towards the more neo-right, even fascist tradition, which is frightening,” he said.Should his film win over a jury led bydirector Greta Gerwig, Coppola would become the first ever triple winner of the Cannes festival’s top prize.
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