I just got back from watching this. I did actually enjoy it. For me, there were a lot of universal themes shimmering beneath the surface. It felt like these are things the director, Francis Ford Coppola, is perhaps also occupied with. It is a truly beautiful movie to look at and has some trademark styles and cues that certainly make it feel like a Coppola movie. To be honest, I don’t understand why so many critics have dismissed it.

At times, the film is totally incoherent and yet mesmerising. I think perhaps that is the real allure of this movie.