Megalopolis

If there is one director who should rightly be resting on his laurels, it is Francis Ford Coppola, but the now 85-year-old American is not done making films yet, witness the release of Megalopolis. He had already written the screenplay in the early 1980s, but failed to get the financing back then. He started working on the film again in 2001, but again the project had to be abandoned. In 2007, he bid it farewell for good, but blood goes where it won't: in 2019, he started it again anyway, this time successfully. Megalopolis has become a grand and complex spectacle, in which Coppola in his own unique way re-tells the story the fall of the Roman Empire.

The brilliant architect and inventor Cesar Cataline (Adam Driver ) has developed Megalon, a very special new building material with which he intends to build a new city: Megalopolis, a city that will bring prosperity and happiness to its inhabitants. But the mayor of New Rome, Franklyn Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), sees nothing in all these plans, nor does the populist and jealous Clodio (Shia LaBeouf). Cicero's daughter Julia (Nathalie Emmanuel), on the other hand, is impressed by Cesar's ideas. Will the city be built?