One from the Heart (1982)
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
In a dazzling, dreamlike Las Vegas, longtime couple Hank and Frannie break up on their fifth anniversary and each pursue the fantasy of new love over one neon-soaked night—he with a free-spirited acrobat, she with a seductive musician. But as illusion and reality blur, both must decide whether passion or devotion truly defines the heart.
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The road to resuscitating the Hollywood musical—which is to say, an original screen musical as opposed to an adapted Broadway show, such as Chicago —is beset with honorable failures from major auteurs: Scorsese’s New York, New York (1977) sank beneath its own romantic psychodrama; Coppola’s One From the Heart (1981) eventually bankrupted the filmmaker and closed Zoetrope Studios; Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You (1996) was liked by critics but achieved only semi-liftoff with audiences.
On paper, the film sounds like nothing so much as Francis Ford Coppola’s financially ruinous One From the Heart .
There are elements of Scorsese’s “New York, New York” here and if you squint just right, “La La Land” may be the movie that Francis Ford Coppola’s “One From the Heart” (1981) was trying to be.
The whiff of hopelessness undergirding their relationship evokes not Singin' in the Rain but One from the Heart — the equally artful but decidedly dark musical from Francis Ford Coppola.
After scoring a major hit with "Apocalypse Now" in 1979, her dad, director Francis Ford Coppola, made the stupendously lavish 1982 musical "One From the Heart," which turned out to be a starry-eyed celebration of superficiality.
Like much of Coppola's work, this film walks a fine line between the visually stunning and the bizarre or grotesque ( The Godfather , One From the Heart, Apocalypse Now ).
Here, as in One From the Heart, Coppola lets his visual genius engulf the story; you have to get your bearings with almost every new shot.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula provided the director with a way to pay off the massive debts he had built up following the closing of his Zoetrope Studios and the failure of One from the Heart.