Few filmmakers working today have been in the directing business as long as the legendaryFrancis Ford Coppolahas.

That counts for something, in the end.

So, as far as whatMegalopolisis actually about?

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Also, the lightning gives him psychic powers.

Also, he meets a woman who’s had a similarly strange lightning-related experience.

Also, they have to evade Nazis.

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All the while, the film ponders the nature of existence and deals with the idea of reincarnation.

It’s an uneven but certainly interesting movie, and not deserving of all the scorn it’s received.

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You’re a Big Boy Now - 1966

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Cesar revealing a fglowing ball inside a vase in Megalopolis (2024).

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Fred Astaire in Finian’s Rainbow

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Youth Without Youth - 2007

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Gardens of Stone - 1987

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Luana Anders looking intently at something off-camera in Dementia 13

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Gregory Hines and Maurice Hines in The Cotton Club

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Rosanna Arquette as an assistant in ‘New York Stories’

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