Eleanor Coppola died Friday at the age of 87 at her home in California. The causes of the filmmaker's death have not been specified.
She is particularly known for having directed “Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse”, a documentary which traces the 238 days of filming of her husband's cult film Apocalypse Now. She also worked as a director and screenwriter on two recently released films: Paris Can Wait and Love Is Love is Love. This news comes only a few days after the announcement of Francis Ford Coppolas' entry into competition at the next Cannes Film Festival for "Megalopolis", a science fiction film that he has dreamed of for forty years. He is aiming for a third Palme d'Or after those obtained for "Secret Conversation", in 1974, then "Apocalypse Now", in 1979. The first unfortunately died in 1986 in a boat accident. He was only 22 years old then. The second died in 1998 in a car accident.