There are many stars in Francis Ford Coppola ’s batshit crazy and, some would say, botched $120-million dystopian epic from last year, Megalopolis , which the legendary Hollywood auteur paid for out of his own pocket.

But there is really only one star in Mike Figgis’ fascinating fly-on-the-wall account of that film’s extremely ambitious and chaotic shoot, and that’s Coppola himself. The Godfather director steals the show here as an energetic, pugnacious and visionary circus ringleader who put his money where his mouth was for a project that wound up flopping critically and commercially. And he did so, as he keeps telling everyone, “to have fun.”

There are many stars in Francis Ford Coppola ’s batshit crazy and, some would say, botched $120-million dystopian epic from last year,

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