Review of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) by Nicolas L — 20 Feb 2008

I never realized Francis Ford Coppola is fucking crazy.

This review of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) was written by Nicolas L on 20 Feb 2008.

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