Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” has been the talk of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, for better and for worse. The massive, sprawling film, financed by $120 million of Coppola’s own money and starring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito and Jon Voight as titans of a New York City that bears more than a few traces of ancient Rome, has drawn a handful of rave reviews, quite a few negative ones and a whole lot of “what was that?”
On Thursday, the film has its world premiere, receiving a 10-minute standing ovation at its Grand Theatre Lumiere debut but getting a mixture of applause and boos at its main press screening.
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