I've recently, finally, been watching Coppola's work post-Apocalypse Now, and I honestly no longer understand the hate and confusion around Megalopolis because this man has been unhinged for decades. And I love it! Rumble Fish is mind-boggling in its style yet still so heartbreaking. Dracula is just about the most artistically deranged film I've ever witnessed, and yet it manages to tell the "Dracula" story in such a fresh way channeling a genuine sense of doom and long. But man, One From the Heart? Throughout this experience, I was pretty sure it was an influence on such a range of other films like Amelie, Bladerunner 2049, La La Land, Annette, Showgirls, maybe even 90s Lynch. And yet, it's that unmistakable tenacity behind the art on display that reminds us we're not in reality, but in the hands of Francis Ford Coppola, blazing through the story at hand according to his rules. Much like Dracula, actually, One From the Heart also felt like a history book on popular western cinema, giving equal hints of German Expressionism, Old Hollywood Noir, French New Wave genre reconstructionism, and of course the Golden Age romantic musical. And yet, the journey we go on increasingly becomes abstracted, from its already surreal and adventurous starting point, moving deeper into the psyches of the film's main characters to capture a glimpse of the real, unforgiving situation of a broken, toxic relationship with no exit in sight. What a great anti-romance in that way, almost like the genre subversion of a Jacques Demy musical, but with the satire of Albert Brooks and the visual language of a true fantasy (but like on too much shrooms in a good way). Anyway, if you haven't seen this yet...be prepared for something you've never experienced before, but if you have an open mind, it's pretty fucking good!