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Hearts of Darkness: a Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Fax Bahr / US, 1991 / 96 min.

When does megalomaniac ambition tip over into insanity? Documentary about what happened on the set of Coppola’s epic Apocalypse Now – ‘a war in itself’ – dealing with the Vietnam War and starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando and Dennis Hopper.

poster Hearts of Darkness: a Filmmaker's Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, US 1991)
Francis Ford Coppola spent years and years working on his latest production, the dystopian drama Megalopolis, which he largely financed himself. Is the final result a magnum opus, or a flawed masterpiece? Reactions in the press were divided, although one thing was undisputed: the respect due to the unbridled ambition, daring and daredevil attitude with which, in his eighties, Coppola stuck to his dreams and ambitions.

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Director

Fax Bahr

Production year

1991

Country

US

Original title

Hearts of Darkness: a Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Length

96 min.

Language

English

Subtitles

NONE

Format

DCP

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Feat or Failure

Magnum opus or flawed masterpiece? No film divided opinion at the last Cannes film festival as much as Francis Ford Coppola's latest epic, Megalopolis. To accompany the première, Eye is screening a selection of other films that turned out to be way ahead of their time – in spite of not being well understood in their own era.

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