Francis Ford Coppola releases the trailer for Megalopolis with a touching message

Francis Ford Coppola releases the trailer for Megalopolis with a touching message



Megalopolisfull of emotions

The broadcast of the trailer of Megalopolisthe new film by Francis Ford Coppola, was a strong moment for the public of the legendary filmmaker, already awarded twice with the Palme d’Or in Cannes for Apocalypse now AND Secret conversation. Megalopolis, in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, will it offer him a third supreme prize? We’ll have to wait to find out, but in the meantime this is certain Megalopolis it is already an event.

Megalopolis
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“I was really hoping to celebrate his birthday together”

An important event therefore for the entire cinematographic chain. And also, profoundly, for Francis Ford Coppola. He published a very touching message on Instagram, revealing the trailer of Megalopolis. In fact, these images have been revealed on May 4ththat is, his wife’s birthday, Eleonora Coppoladied on April 12, 2024 at the age of 87 years old.

In the caption of the trailer he wrote:

Megalopolis has always been a film dedicated to my dear wife Eleanor. I was really hoping to celebrate her birthday together this May 4th. Unfortunately that didn’t happen, so let me share a gift in her name with everyone.

Born May 4, 1936 in Los Angeles, Eleanor Neil was a documentary filmmaker, artist and writer. She married Francis Ford Coppola in 1963, and during her career she directed several documentaries about the making of her husband’s and her children’s films, including the formidable Hearts of Darkness: A Director’s Apocalypsewhich recounts the infernal production ofApocalypse now.

The presentation of Megalopolis on the Croisette, a few weeks after her death, it will also be the occasion for a tribute to Eleanor Coppola.

Source: Cine Serie

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