Regardless of the combined evaluations from critics and audiences, Francis Ford Coppola has given an ideal rating to Megalopolis on Letterboxd.
Earlier this summer season, Megalopolis director Francis Ford Coppola joined Letterboxd, the social cataloguing service the place members can price and evaluate movies and preserve observe of what they’ve watched. He hasn’t been too energetic on the service, however he has given Megalopolis a good five-star rating. The divisive movie has been receiving combined evaluations from critics and audiences, with the common Letterboxd rating sitting at 2.9. Coppola additionally gave 5 stars to The Final Showgirl, a movie directed by his granddaughter Gia Coppola.
Regardless of the combined evaluations, Megalopolis is clearly a undertaking Coppola is obsessed with. He spent many years growing the film and even put up $120 million of his personal cash. Whereas it’s a disgrace the film wasn’t the universally acclaimed masterpiece that many had been hoping it will be, of us can’t appear to cease speaking about it. In my e book, an fascinating failure is extra alluring than one other two hours of forgettable mediocrity.
Our personal Chris Bumbray caught Megalopolis at TIFF, and sadly, he wasn’t a fan. “Within the final forty minutes, Megalopolis turns into an actual catastrophe, with a lot jam-packed into the film’s third act that it turns into nearly not possible to maintain up with it,” Bumbray wrote. “It turns into nonsensical because it races in direction of its ending. Once more, one can’t fault Coppola for his ambition. He financed the film with cash he earned, so he had each proper to make precisely the movie he needed to make. But it surely’s onerous to think about this ever connecting with anybody apart from hardcore Coppola devotees or perhaps connoisseurs of unhealthy cinema.” You’ll be able to take a look at the remainder of Bumbray’s evaluate proper right here.
The official synopsis for Megalopolis reads: “Megalopolis is a Roman Epic fable set in an imagined Trendy America. The Metropolis of New Rome should change, inflicting battle between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who seeks to leap right into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who stays dedicated to a regressive established order, perpetuating greed, particular pursuits, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero, the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to find what she really believes humanity deserves.” The movie is at the moment slated to hit theaters on September twenty seventh. I’m wanting ahead to lastly attending to test the movie out for myself.
