Director Eleanor Coppola, wife of Francis Ford Coppola, dies at the age of 87

The director’s disappearance comes just weeks before the Cannes Film Festival, where Francis Ford Coppola is presenting his film in competition. Megalopolis. This is a big project, being prepared since 1983, for which the director had to pay 120 million dollars.

Director and screenwriter

His documentary In hearts of darkness he had made an impression. It explored many of the key events that took place during the filming of the film in the Philippines that won Francis Ford Coppola the Palme d’Or at Cannes. The film was damaged by a hurricane, a heart attack that affected the actor Martin Sheen, as well as the death of a member of the technical team forced the director to extend the production time, causing an explosion of budget costs.

In 2007, fifteen years later In hearts of darknessproduced the manufacture of Marie Antoinetteone of the feature films of his daughter, Sofia Coppola.

He worked as a director of photography on various feature films, while also trying his hand at writing screenplays and directing fiction films: Hello Anne (Paris Can Waitin the original version), comics released in 2016, and Love stories (Love is Love) in 2020.