“In 2022, at the age of 83, director Francis Ford Coppola began the production on a passion project four decades in the making: Megalopolis. Putting more than $100 million of his own money on the line, Coppola began rehearsals before moving into a nearly four-month-long shoot. And director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) captured the entire process. While we know the result—the wildly ambitious sci-fi drama starring Adam Driver divided critics and audiences alike—Figgis’s candid documentary reveals something much more intimate. Coppola shares his creative process with great openness, allowing Figgis to capture joyful, chaotic, confusing, tense scenes from the production. The result is a portrait of Coppola as a master artist, taking on another massive challenge. Can he push himself through a strenuous, emotionally taxing shoot, yet one more time?” –Fiona Armour, Telluride Film Festival
