Eleanor Coppola, wife of Francis Ford Coppola and director of Hearts of Darkness, has died

Eleanor Coppola, wife of Francis Ford Coppola and director of Hearts of Darkness, has died


A few weeks after the presentation of Megalopolis in Cannes, it passed in these hours Eleanor Coppolawife of Francis Ford Coppola and the director of the original article Hearts of Darkness.

The patriarch of a famous Hollywood dynasty, who won an Emmy for directing Hearts of Darkness: The Filmmaker’s Apocalypse and who, tirelessly, made his first feature film at the age of 80, died on Friday at the age of 87. : According to reports, Eleanor Coppola died at her home in Rutherford, California, his family said in a statement to The Associated Press. She is survived by her husband of 61 years, five-time Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola, 85; their daughter, Sofia Coppola, Oscar-winning director, producer and screenwriter; and their son, Roman Coppola, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter. His eldest son, actor Gian-Carlo Coppola, died in 1986 at the age of 22 in a speedboat accident.

In addition to the documentary Hearts of Darkness, which won him an Emmy, we also remember Paris Can Wait (2016) for Sony Pictures Classics, the film he made about Eleanor. the second oldest person to direct the first narrative feature film. He was also an actor in a romantic drama, which is about a woman (Diane Lane) who is married to a Hollywood producer (Alec Baldwin) and who turns a seven-hour trip with a Frenchman (Arnaud Viard) into three days. trip (A similar incident happened to Eleanor in 2009.) More recently, wrote and directed Love Is Love Is Love (2020)with Rosanna Arquette, Chris Messina and Cybill Shepherd.

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