At the Cannes Film Festival 2024, the world premiere of Francis Ford Coppola’s highly anticipated film Megalopolis starring Adam Driver, was met with an overwhelming response.
On Thursday night, the movie garnered seven and a half minute standing ovation and received the mix response from the audience at the ongoing film festival.
The two-hour and twenty-minute dystopian thriller split audiences with its provocative content, which included scenes such as a doctored sex tape and a flamboyant, Trump-like figure played by Shia LaBeouf.
“Thank you all so much. It is so impossible to find words to tell you how I feel,” Coppola said.
He added, “But they were not the only family because all of these wonderful actors and folks were all my family. As Cesar [Driver’s character in the film] says, we’re all one family. You’re all my cousins. We are one. We are the human family.”
Coppola continued, “As you see at the end, that’s who we should pledge our allegiance to: our entire family and to this beautiful home, Earth, that we have. That is my wish. That it’s the children who are going to inherit this beautiful world from us. The most important word we have is the most beautiful word in any language: ‘esperanza.’ Hope. And that’s what I dedicate this to.”
To note, Megalopolis cast includes, Jon Voight, Grace VanderWaal, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter, Dustin Hoffman, Fineman, Madeleine Gardella, Balthazar Getty, Bailey Ives, Isabelle Kusman, James Remar and D. B. Sweeney.
The film is released in theaters on May 16, 2024.
