Francis Ford Coppola’s 140-minute dystopian drama Megalopolis received a mixed reaction at its Cannes Film Festival premiere on Thursday (May 16), with some members of the audience initially booing.The Godfather director’s new, self-financed film stars Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina, an architect-scientist who wants to improve a fictional version of New York City called New Rome.Audience members reportedly started booing after the film ended.
However, according to World of Reel‘s Jordan Ruimy, the boos soon turned to cheers when an “In Memoriam” segment proceeded to play for Coppola’s late wife Eleanor.
The director and cast then received a seven-minute standing ovation.“Thank you all so much. It is so impossible to find words to tell you how I feel,” Coppola said at the end of the credits, introducing his family members to the audience.“But they were not the only family because all of these wonderful actors and folks were all my family.
As Cesar [Driver’s character in the film] says, we’re all one family. You’re all my cousins. We are one. We are the human family.
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