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Apocalypse Now (1979)
Amazing and great!
Strange, fascinating, grandiose, paranoid, overwhelming, epic, disgusting, gigantic! These are the many adjectives that can be used to describe this monument of cinema. The Redux version, extended for about 45 minutes, was fully supervised by Francis Coppola for the 20th anniversary of the film and to its operation on DVD. The reintegrated sequences do not distort the original version of the film. We have more playmates, more madness and especially more Brando, for the Kurtz's character benefit. Only the sequence of the French plantation (30 minutes alone) is a questionable digression because it depicts the French so naive and causes a break from the narrative. The film, supported by a director prey to megalomania, was brought forth in pain. The sets were ravaged by a storm. Helicopters lent by the army of the country where the shooting took place, were requisitioned to fight when turning the aerial sequences. Lead actor Martin Sheen, drunk all day long, had a heart attack. The director gave her tray for a whole week for a romantic extramarital under the eyes of his wife who was incorporated in the technical team. Time and budget were so happily overwhelmed to the point that the production company of Coppola, Zoetrope, went bankrupt and the theatrical release was compromised until his selection at Cannes festival with a emergency montage. This film adventure is told in the "Heart of Darkness" documentary.
Palme d'or at Cannes' festival in 1979, Oscar for best photography.