Editorial: Liberation

• Primarily, it’s about a personal gamble: Francis Ford Coppola financed his own movie when nobody else wanted to produce it, investing $120 million into Megalopolis.
• To fund the movie, Coppola had to sell a large part of his vineyards, get his children and grandchildren involved, and save time and money on actors' wages.
• The director, considered as one of the living greats of cinema, pours everything he loves about cinema into this movie, which depicts a phantasmagorical love story set in a powerful city that is both New York and ancient Rome.
• The movie, forty years in the making, finally debuts in France.
• Coppola, who once didn't want to make 'The Godfather' and reportedly threw all his Oscars out the window, hints that his movie can stop time and looks forward to his 23rd film being as ground-breaking as James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake'.

Conclusion: Ultimately, Coppola demonstrates that comprehension of a work is not essential to its greatness, and that personal debt is a small price to pay for a leap of faith in art.

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