"Hallucination that cracks on the seams" - critics about the new film of Coppoli "Megalopolis"

The opinions of critics on the film of Coppol, whose idea he had carried for 40 years and invested in him $ 120 million personal money, was divided. Many called the picture chaotic and got confused in the intricacies of the plot. On the screens of Ukrainian cinemas came a new film directed by Francis Ford Coppoli "Megalopolis", the main role in which was played by Adam Driver, and the image of one of the characters, Hamilton of Craussus III, was embodied by John Voit, Father Angelina Jolie.

The events of epic scientific and fantastic drama take place in New York in the future, where lawlessness prevails. The main character of Caesar Katilin is a brilliant architect who is able to stop time and see through measurements. On the ruins of a large apple, he wants to build a new Rome. The main opponent of this idea is the mayor of New York Franklin Cicero, a supporter of practical decisions.

The situation is deteriorated by the fact that the daughter of a mayor, Julia, in love with the architect. While Katilina is fighting obstacles, the city begins a civil war. Coppola completely financed the shooting of the painting, spending $ 120 million personal funds, and abandoned digital technologies. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024. The opinions of the critics about the paintings are strongly divided: some consider it chaotic, others call it a work of art.

On the popular Rotten Tomatoes website, a drama rating, which most characterize as an arthouse movie, is 50%. Manola Dargis from The New York Times calls the new work of Coppol "beautifully untouched. " Francis Ford Koppoli is a hallucination of a movie that cracks at the seams. At the same time, melancholy crying and futuristic fantasy, he causes different epochs and overflowing with exciting images and ideas that sometimes beaten from the panthelic, "she writes.

Peter Brarshaw from The Guardian criticized" Megalopolis "because Passion -free passionist: a swollen, boring and surface surface film that knocks out of the panthelic, full of school truths about the future of humanity.

At the same time, he is hyperactive and sluggish, loaded with a horrible acting game and uninteresting, cheap work in appearance of visual effects, which does not achieve the texture of analog reality or a completely radical digital rethinking Funny, funny, sometimes exciting mess in a movie that can be perceived either as a bold manifestation of cinematographic ambitions or as a $ 120 million. Special effects and transparent solutions in which one image views through another.

If there was such a thing as visual indigestion, "metropolis" could give it to you. Coppol's affection for cinematographic courage, as well as an expression of hope for chaotic world. "Justin Chang recommends a picture to watch and write that" megalopolis "is a" wicked mess, full of disparate lines, didactic ideas and confused historical The director who has long lost his charm and perhaps the mind.