‘Megalopolis’ is about U.S. heading in ‘fascist’ direction, Coppola says
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Cannes, FRANCE — Near the end of Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” — a baffling sci-fi epic that cost the director $120 million of his own money and was 40 years in the making — Shia LaBeouf’s slimy rich-kid politician is exposed as a false prophet to the poor masses of New Rome and strung upside down by his feet.
