Amazing and great!

Rating: 10/10 (20 August 2013)

Strange, fascinating, grandiose, paranoid, overwhelming, epic, disgusting, gigantic! These are the many adjectives that can be used to describe the monument of cinema. The Redux version extended by about 45 minutes, was fully supervised by Francis Coppola for the 20th anniversary of the film and to its operation on DVD. Sequences reintegrated not distort the original about the film. We have the right to more playmates, more madness and especially more Brando, for the benefit of the character Kurtz. Only the sequence of the French plantation (30 minutes alone) is questionable digression because it has the French so naive and causes a break from the narrative. The film, supported by a director prey to megalomania, was brought forth in pain. The sets were ravaged by a storm. Helicopters lent by the army of the country where the shooting took place, were requisitioned to fight against a coup when turning the aerial sequences. Lead actor Martin Sheen, drunk all day long, had a heart attack. The director gave her tray for a whole week for a romantic extramarital under the eyes of his wife incorporated the technical team. Time and on budget were so happily overwhelmed to the point that the production company of Coppola, Zoetrope, went bankrupt and the theatrical release was compromised until his selection at Cannes with a montage done in an emergency. This adventure film is told in the documentary Heart of Darkness dedicated to filming.
Palme d'or at Cannes' festival in 1979, Oscar for best photography.