by Philip Oltermann in Cannes on (#6MWQ8)
Speaking at Cannes, the director says Megalopolis, his reworking of ancient Rome's Catiline conspiracy, has become ever more prescientMegalopolis review - Coppola's passion project is megabloated and megaboringThe US, whose founders tried to emulate the laws and governmental structures of the Roman republic, is headed for a similarly self-inflicted collapse, director Francis Ford Coppola has said at the premiere of his first film in more than a decade.What's happening in America, in our republic, in our democracy, is exactly how Rome lost their republic thousands of years ago," Coppola told a press conference at the Cannes film festival on Friday. Our politics has taken us to the point where we might lose our republic." Continue reading...