Cannes: Coppola's Roman candle 'Megalopolis' is juicy and weird
CANNES, France — It was here at Cannes, 45 years ago, that Francis Ford Coppola finally emerged from his wilderness of making "Apocalypse Now" with a work in progress, the finish line in sight. That press conference is immortalized in "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse," the massively entertaining 1991 documentary by Coppola's wife, Eleanor, in which the "Godfather" director is seen to declare, "My film is not a movie about Vietnam — it is Vietnam."
It's an almost mythological moment for cinema, one that encompasses
