Metropolis 2024 Review Of. Francis ford coppola’s bold, ungainly epic crams in half a dozen stars and decades’ worth of ideas reviewed at cannes film festival (competition),. Coppola’s magnum opus, which premiered in competition at the cannes film.

There are echoes here of the central conflict in fritz lang’s metropolis, the granddaddy of all city of the future movies, with its own clash between an aloof, opportunistic. Wells and fritz lang, is rendered in chintzy digital vistas awash in dictatorial.