Cannes Head Thierry Frémaux Talks ‘Megalopolis’ Selection: “Francis Ford Coppola Is Part Of The Cannes Family”
deadline.comThe Cannes Film Festival officially announced the selection of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis in Competition at its press conference in Paris on Thursday, confirming Deadline’s scoop from Mike Fleming earlier this week.
Talking to journalists after the press conference, a visibly happy Frémaux expressed his content at having Megalopolis in the festival’s 77th edition. “Francis Ford Coppola is part of the Cannes family, not only because he got two Palme d’Or, but also he was always quite close to us,” he said in a response to a question from Deadline.
Thierry Frémaux on 'Megalopolis' selection for the Cannes Film Festival: "Francis Ford Coppola is part of the Cannes family" pic.twitter.com/qOtaawHKDi The Cannes delegate general said he had been gently checking in with Coppola over the past year on his progress with Megalopolis. “He started to edit his film one year ago.
As we are talking quite frequently, I was just asking, ‘What about you? What are you doing?’. Then, one day he was in Budapest working on the music and I was not asking about the film because of course it is always complicated and delicate, and he was working,” he recounted. “Weeks ago, not months ago, he told me, ‘Well I’m finished.
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