Francis Ford Coppola's long-awaited epic Megalopolis divides Cannes

Director Francis Ford Coppola poses on the red carpet with cast members Jon Voight, DB Sweeney, Grace VanderWaal, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Romy Mars, Adam Driver and Nathalie Emmanuel, ahead of the screening of Megalopolis at the Cannes Film Festival.

Would the epic US$120 million project that he self-funded, and that has been gestating for some 40 years, be another masterpiece emerging from chaos, like Apocalypse Now all those decades ago?One early press screening attended by AFP was greeted with both jeering boos and enthusiastic applause. Adam Driver stars as Caesar Catalina, a cape-twirling Nobel Prize-winning architect hell-bent on using his seemingly magical powers to rebuild the collapsing urban sprawl into a utopian and futuristic Garden of Eden.

Straw hat and cane in hand, he entered the packed world premiere – the festival’s hottest ticket – having promised a film of operatic scale.He recently reeled off a list of influences that included Voltaire, Plato, Shakespeare, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Kurosawa, “Moses and the prophets all thrown in”. “Cannes is important to him and he is important to Cannes. He comes as an artist,” said festival head Thierry Fremaux.Megalopolis is one of 22 films competing for the Palme d’Or, facing a jury led by Barbie director Greta Gerwig, who will announce their verdict on May 25.

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