What Even Is Megalopolis?

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a baffling object. Some critics think it’s bad on purpose and some think it’s bad by accident (our own Bilge Ebiri seemed to fall somewhere in the middle). What mostly everyone seems to agree upon is that it is not coherent. This includes many of the actors, who, at the Cannes press conference on Friday, admitted to often having no idea what this movie is about, though many of them got choked up while talking about that.