on 1/18/2025, 10:21 am
Post-postmodernist neo-noir? Character archetypes steroscopically blended in an atom-smasher? Overwrought interfamilial (ancient) Greek yogurt tragedy replete with ham-on-rye acting and perch-faced Adam Driver hopscotching back to the strange free-fall freedom of high school drama class?
None of this is more than tangentially relevant to the cogent approach that young Alexandra Coburn takes to get us inside/alongside the gonfalon goings-on that Francis Ford Coppola has tossed across the screen in MEGALOPOLIS...but she comes up with an excellent reference point that we should hang onto for dear life: "a swan song for the future."
Coburn is kind enough to leave us a thread with which we can re-emerge from Coppola's fever-dream of a labyrinth. If there is indeed a future, I fully expect her to have a bright one...
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