In the fictional American city of New Rome, visionary artist Cesar Catilina strives to lead humanity toward a utopian future, but faces resistance from the city’s mayor, who clings to a regressive status quo. Caught in the middle is the mayor’s daughter, who falls in love with Cesar, placing herself at the heart of a sweeping conflict between cynicism and idealism. Forty years in the making, legendary director Francis Ford Coppola’s (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now) fantastical blend of political drama, philosophical sci-fi, and star-crossed romance finally comes to the big screen.

Reviews

‘Ignore the haters – this is the kaleidoscopic, enriching, Wellsian vision of a grand old master with nothing to lose…Feels like being at the vanguard of something scintillating, absurd and violently original.’
★★★★
David Jenkins, Little White Lies

‘With Megalopolis, [Coppola] crams 85 years worth of artistic reverence and romantic love into a clunky, garish, and transcendently sincere manifesto about the role of an artist at the end of an empire.’
★★★★
David Ehrlich, IndieWire