Joker 2: This director with 5 Oscars and 2 Palme d’Ors is a fan of the film with Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga

In 2024, the first completed the project that he had been trying to compose for four decades, and the second went on to become his greatest public success (the Golden Lion in Venice, then two Oscars). And their two films clashed in US theaters from October 4th to 6th. With a clear victory for the second, Joker: Folie à deux, which took control at the box office, while Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis fell to the last position in the top 10.

Even if they were never in direct competition, with one released on more than 4,000 screens compared to the other’s 1,854, Francis Ford Coppola proved to be a good player. InstagramWelcomes both the new Joker and the work of his counterpart.

“Movies Todd Phillips It always amazes me and I appreciate them endlessly”writes the man who won two Palme d’Ors at the Cannes Film Festival thanks to Secret Conversation and Apocalypse Now. “Since the amazing Very bad tripHe was always one step ahead of society and never did what was expected of him. Congratulations to Joker: Folie à deux.”

Beyond the fair play of the author of the Godfather trilogy, this praise is perhaps also due to what we can read in the second part of the post: “I am also honored to be a cinematographer Lawrence Sher He claimed to be inspired fall on something visually.”

Released in 1982, Coup de coeur is Francis Ford Coppola’s first post-apocalypse now film. A stylized musical romance that he always ranked among his most personal films, but also one of his biggest failures, grossing less than $700,000 in the Atlantic.

That this is the main reference of Folie à deux, when the Joker was inspired by Martin Scorsese’s most acclaimed Taxi Driver (and a bit of the same author’s La Valse des pantins, which time again showed its place) is beyond doubt. You should warm his… heart.