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Rating: 6.5 stars

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All movies seen on 09/27/2024

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Megalopolis (2024)

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Drama

Most recently watched by sleestakk, sensoria, VicnaLobster

Overview

Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, while his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan warfare. Torn between them is socialite Julia Cicero, the mayor’s daughter, whose love for Cesar has divided her loyalties, forcing her to discover what she truly believes humanity deserves.

Rated R | Length 138 minutes

Actors

Adam Driver | Giancarlo Esposito | Nathalie Emmanuel | Aubrey Plaza | Shia LaBeouf | Jon Voight | Laurence Fishburne | Talia Shire | Jason Schwartzman | Kathryn Hunter | Grace VanderWaal | Chloe Fineman | James Remar | D. B. Sweeney | Isabelle Kusman | Bailey Coppola | Madeleine Gardella | Balthazar Getty | Romy Mars | Haley Sims | Dustin Hoffman | Sonia Ben Ammar | Neri Oxman | AJ Caba | Michael Mourra | Charlie Talbert | Tommy Lee Driver | Caroline Bloom | George Dillard | Donald Pitts | Philip Dido | Gayle Hooker | James Keane | Sean Hankinson | Andrew Ayala | Ritwik Chatterjee | Kendra Stout | Max Bojorquez | Renee McNeil | Suzan Norton | Vince Pasani | Robert Kim | Laura Hawkins | Henry Louis Adams Jr | Paul Pudney | Vanessa Nichole | Nikki Rush | Tammy Hurtado | Emma Anne Wedemeyer | Ivy Lightsey | Art Newkirk | Savannah Powers | Emily Berry | Adolf Hitler | Benito Mussolini

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Viewing Notes

A lot of big (and important) ideas about art, greed, and our future as a society, but I found the narrative confusing and, maybe even worse, uninvolving.

Coppola self-funded the film and you have to admire the ambition and scope.  But it almost felt like a five-hour movie that had been cut down to 2 1/2 hours.

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