FILM
MEGALOPOLIS
IS IT AN OFFER YOU CAN’T REFUSE?
A ruminative Adam Driver as Cesar
★★★
OUT 27 SEPTEMBER / CERT TBC / 138 MINS
DIRECTOR
Francis Ford Coppola
CAST
Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Dustin Hoffman
PLOT
In an alternate future America, architects, artists and politicians battle for the soul of ‘New Rome’, a New York-esque city.
TIME HAS ALWAYS been kind to Francis Ford Coppola. The legendary filmmaker is no stranger to epic, unwieldy, ruinously expensive films, underappreciated upon release before later achieving classic status. Will his monumental, decades-in-the-making, self-funded passionproject Megalopolis follow a similar path to The Godfather and Apocalypse Now —or will it be more like One From The Heart? Only time will tell. It is certainly a film that requires some time digesting.