By A confidential screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic “Megalopolis” reportedly took place in London earlier this week and follows on from the first screening in Los Angeles the other week.
As a result, more reactions are flowing out online from some attendees. A source for LePoint journalist Philippe Guedj spoke of that UK screening, telling him: “This film is like Einstein and relativity in 1905, Picasso and Guernica in 1937… Coppola marks a new date in the history of cinema.”
Meanwhile Hollywood Elsewhere posted two further reactions from the Los Angeles screening.
One says it’s “about as non-Joe Popcorn a movie as one can imagine” and it’s “so startling, so original and sometimes downright confounding”. They add the first 50-60% of the film is better than the remainder because “you lose track of the story”.
The other says “Those who love it for its boldness will be right. and those who dismiss it for the same reason will, if you insist, also be correct.”
Whilst Coppola says he isn’t planning any festival premiere decisions until he’s secured a distributor and release strategy, Cannes Film Festival boss Thierry Fremaux has made it quite clear he wants to premiere the movie on the Croisette and tells Variety: “it would be an honor to welcome him back.
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