American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, 86, director of fundamental titles of history as The godfather y Apocalipse Now, He has been hospitalized in Rome this Tuesday morning, according to the Italian press.
The newspaper The Republic He assures that Coppola was in Portland last Sunday to present his last film, Megalopolis. Two days later he flew to Rome in secret to be operated in the Tor Vergata Polyclinic. He had scheduled simple cardiac surgery (an ablation), but before entering the operating room to begin the operation, the doctors detected an atrial fibrillation, a type of cardiac arrhythmia, which decided to enter him. If there are no complications, doctors expect their hospital stay at the Tor Vergata Polyclinic Dura La Reppublica.
Coppola is one of Hollywood’s most outstanding figures, a member of a generation that took off in the seventies of the last century, along with filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Brian de Palma or George Lucas. He has won five Oscar awards, three of them as a screenwriter (by Patton, The godfather y The godfather II), one as director (The godfather II) and one as a producer (The godfather II).
Megalopolis, Finally released last year after Coppola was decades trying to carry it forward, it generated very polarized reactions: most reviews considered it between a failed work and a disaster, while a part of the criticism celebrated it as the visionary work of a real cinema master.