A monumental, controversial and visionary work, the result of over forty years of reflection and creative work of one of the greatest masters of international cinema, arrives Today in Soverato for an appointment destined to enter the history of the Magna Graecia Film Festival and Italian cinema. Francis Ford Coppola will be the protagonist of the preview of the XXII edition of the Festival (26 July- August 2), dedicated to the first and second works, which returns after fourteen years in the city where he was born. The projection of “Megalopolis” scheduled for 17.30 scheduled for 5.30 pmhis last and ambitious film, presented in 2024 at the Cannes Film Festival, where he quickly divided public and critics, setting the debate. A film that, from the beginning, the Oscar -winning director has defined as an intellectual and artistic challenge, capable of breaking traditional narrative logic.
A work “which takes time to be assimilated”as he himself has declared and that provides a free reflection on the fate of humanity that will be the background to the dialogue that the records will start, within the Soveratheus event, with the film journalist Antonio Capellupo. “How To Change Our Future” is the title of the conversation which proposes a formula desired by the same director who, self -financing the film with over 120 million dollars (to ensure its total artistic freedom) and choosing not to allow the screening within streaming platforms, determined the rules of the distribution of the work that wanted to be seen “in open spaces followed by intense interactive discussions on the future”.
The starting point will be fixed in the possibility of destroying or reinventing contemporary cities by creating new relationships with the humanity that lives themin a vision that intertwines political, philosophy science fiction and social utopia. A look at the future in the belief that art should return to talk about perspectives, progress and human responsibility, far from the commercial logic that dominate industry and a contemporaneity marked by the growing influence of artificial intelligence.
A sort of aesthetic and ideological reaction for raise cinema by means of self -determining new visionsto avoid a dramatic future and to regain the profound meaning of the imagination.
Contents that justify The wait that by the Ionian shore is also fueled by the probable official announcement of the same director who will shoot his next film in Calabria. A choice that in recent days has been confirmed in preview by the President of the Calabria Region, Roberto Occhiuto and who assumes the proportions of historical news for the unprecedented presence of one of the most influential directors of world cinema, author of masterpieces such as “The Godfather”, “Apocalypse Now” and “Dracula”, in a region chosen as a scenario for his next work. Still top secret the details on the locationswhich could however be carpite in the Sovensa event by the same teacher.
In short, a return of the festival conceived by Alessandro and Gianvito Casadonte with a high symbolic and strategic value that makes Calabria crossroads of cinema and future, with Francis Ford Coppola as an exceptional guide.