澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Megalopolis had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Here's our review...
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Adam Driver plays Cesar Catilina, an architect in a future that’s inspired by ancient Rome, complete with togas and orgiastic parties (these also owe a debt to legendary New York nightclub Studio 54). Cesar is hellbent on tran🌠sforming th🤪e selfish city into a harmonious community with his inventive and somewhat baffling plans, much to the annoyance of the Mayor (Giancarlo Esposito).
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Lofty ideas and meta references to Coppola suggest that this is a personal 🌠ode to his art, and given that the writer/director has worked on it for some 40 years, it’s clearly a passion project. But it is hard to share his reverence for his narrative when the dialogue is mannered to the point of distraction, and each performance seems to come from a different movie.
D෴river is somber and serious as the grieving hero who's looking for salvation, while Nathalie Emmanuel is given little to work with in a character whose contradictions remain unexplored. Other female characters are reduced to the sidelines: this is chiefly about a frustrated male genius whose ambitions people don't always🗹 understand. Hmm...
And yet, viewed indulgently, Megalopolis is intriguing and often diverting, its more outrageous moments inviting comparisons with cult classics like Showgirls. The costumes and sets are enjoyably opulent, and a few stand-out scenes will go down in movie history – most of t𒊎hem involving Aubrey Plaza in a plunging neckline with a wicked glint in her eye.
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