{"id":23419,"date":"2024-09-26T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T16:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=23419"},"modified":"2024-10-03T09:32:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T16:32:26","slug":"megalopolis-francis-ford-coppola-bonkers-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/megalopolis-francis-ford-coppola-bonkers-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis Is As Bonkers As You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Francis Ford Coppola’s epic passion project Megalopolis<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is finally hitting theaters and if you’ve been hearing rumors how bonkers it is, just know that isn’t being oversold. Even the official synopsis sounds wild:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Megalopolis is a Roman Epic fable set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The cinematography is stunning, the story is vast, and the experimentation is there: at one point, Adam Driver’s Cesar speaks to an audience member in a Q&A – not an audience member who is a character in the film, but an actual audience member in the theater. Reports emerged from its world premiere that the audience booed it even as they gave it a 7-minute standing ovation. Like I said, weird. Part arthouse, part big-budget sci-fi, Coppola has been dreaming of Megalopolis for literal decades, even selling off part of his vast wine empire to finance the film from his own pocket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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