'Megalopolis' Is Francis Ford Coppola’s Rejuvenation

The good news is that the Fountain of Youth exists. The bad news is that it costs a hundred and twenty million dollars. At least, that’s what Francis Ford Coppola paid, out of his own pocket, for his own version of it—the making of his latest movie, “Megalopolis.” But he got value for his money, judging from the result, in which he seems like a younger director than he has ever been. With its intellectual earnestness, first-person grandiosity, and aesthetic extravagance, the film is more floridly and brazenly youthful than anything else Coppola has made.