The festival also saw spectacular launches out of competition for two Hollywood blockbusters that bill themselves as “sagas”.
The action-packed “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” received largely strong reviews, while Kevin Costner returned to his favorite Western genre with the three-hour “Horizon: An American Saga,” the first of four hotly anticipated chapters. Was.
Like Coppola, Costner poured millions of his fortune into a decades-long passion project.
“At a certain moment I just said, OK, I'm going to do it myself. And so I mortgaged the property, I raised the money,” he told AFP at the festival.
Initial reviews were decidedly mixed, with The Hollywood Reporter deriding it as a “clumsy slog”.
But Costner says he's not worried about losing his money.
He said, “Even if they take it away from me, I still have my film. I still have integrity. I still followed my heart.”