“Given, that’s what my children call me, it’s fine.” In a message posted on his Instagram account, on Tuesday, August 5, Francis Ford Coppola wanted to reassure his fans, after the announcement of his hospitalization in Rome.
Admitted to the Tor Vergata Polylic Hospital for heart problems, the 86 -year -old American director said he was taking advantage of his stay in Italy to “take stock of (his) intervention for atrial fibrillation”, a heart rate disorder he had treated thirty years ago by “his inventor, a great Italian doctor, Dr. Andrea Natale.”
Your relationship with death
According to Hollywood ReporterThis hospitalization actually corresponded to a routine control scheduled for a long time, not to an emergency. The intervention aims to restore the heart rate of the patient using a small electric shock or medications. The filmmaker would currently rest “in good condition” at the Roman hospital.
This news comes only a few days after Coppola spoke publicly about his relationship with death during a projection of his last film. Megalopolis In San Francisco, according to the SFGate Media. “I am 85 years old,” he said, a wrong year, because he really has 86. “I lost my wife Eleanor a year ago, almost at that time. I always lived my life so that when I approached death, I will not say: ‘Oh, I would have liked to do this or that.’
A new Calabria project
The creator of the saga The godfather Do not want to lift: I would actively prepare your feature film. According to the Italian local press, its presence in Rome is explained by locations for this new project that is “very heart”, which will take place in Calabria, region of southern Italy.
Unlike his most famous works, this new film will not deal with mafia stories. “I am not interested, Coppola would have said. I will focus only on the beauties of this region”
Source: BFM TV
