Adam Driver on top of a skyscraperwilling to jump into the void and apparently capable of influencing the course of time: these are the first images revealed this Saturday by Francis Ford Coppola of “Megalopolis”, his next film which will compete at the Cannes Film Festival.
Forty-five years after “Apocalypse Now”which earned him his second Palme d’Or, the American director will be one of the main attractions of the French festival to be held from May 14 to 25, as He hasn’t directed a feature film since “Twixt,” released in 2011..
The day chosen to announce this advance was not chosen at random: May 4 would have been the wife’s 88th birthday. by the filmmaker, Eleanor Coppola.
“+Megalopolis+ It was always a film dedicated to my dear wife, Eleanor. He was really hoping to celebrate her birthday with her this May 4th. But, unfortunately, that is not the case, so let me share with everyone a gift from her,” the filmmaker, 85, wrote on his Instagram account.
This ambitious science fiction film, with a budget of more than US$100 million according to the American press, It revolves around the reconstruction of a city with the air of New York.
Francis Ford Coppola, who also won the top award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974 for “The Conversation,” faces 21 other films this yearwhich will be evaluated by a jury chaired by Greta Gerwig (“Barbie”).
