Look, raising a teen is tough. You know, it's always been hard to be a teenager and it's always been hard to raise a teenager.

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Listen to the Life Kit podcast from NPR. Francis Ford Coppola, the legendary filmmaker behind the Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse

Now, is back with his first new feature in well over a decade.

It's called Megalopolis and it's as epic as its name suggests.

It reimagines the fall of Rome through a futuristic American city that sort of resembles New York

and has a lot of big and messy ideas about time and the fate of humanity.

It's also packed with stars doing their level best to stay afloat in these murky waters of stylish

success. Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, and Aubrey Plaza to name just a few, throw in statues toppling,

time stopping, and so many speeches and we've got quite a

headscratcher on our hands I'm Glenn Weldon and I'm Aisha Harris and today we're going to try

to make some sense of megalopolis on Popcocher Happy Hour from NPR.

Joining us today is Philadelphia Inquirers Arts and Entertainment Editor and Film Critic

Bedatry D. Chaudary. Hello, butatri.

Hey, I don't know if I should be thanking you

or if you guys should be apologizing to me,

but happy to be here.

No.

We'll see by the end of this conversation.

Also with us is writer Chris Klemek.

Hello, Chris.

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