This Must be the Place
- 2011
- USA
- 118 min
- Directed by: Paolo Sorrentino
- Written by: Umberto Contarello
- Cast: Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch
Reclusive rock star Cheyenne (Penn) goes in search of the SS officer who humiliated his father at Auschwitz. A weird and sometimes wonderful mixture of road movie and revenge drama from the director of Il Divo, with a fearlessly idiosyncratic but endearing performance from Penn, superb visuals and a great score.
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Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
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This Must Be the Place
19 Mar 2012
Bracing aesthetic and gentle humanity despite risking absurdity at times
(15) 119min There is a strong sense of the baroque running through the films of Paolo Sorrentino, not least his bravura portrait of former Italian Prime Minister Andreotti in Il Divo. His first English language venture This Must Be The Place neither…
Director Paolo Sorrentino discusses the Sean Penn-starring This Must Be the Place
19 Mar 2012
The drama merges themes of America, rock music and the Holocaust
The protagonist at the heart of Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must be the Place isn’t your typical Nazi-hunter. Endearingly played by Sean Penn, Cheyenne is a retired rock star, now living in Dublin, whose mental and physical faculties have been impaired by…
Glasgow Film Festival: Dexter Fletcher, Wild Bill and All in Good Time
24 Feb 2012
Highlights including Trishna, The Monk and This Must Be The Place
Glasgow Film Festival is at its halfway point already, and I’ve only caught a small slice from the exploding smorgasbord that is this year’s programme (more than 200 films: your move, EIFF). But in that slice there’s been a few that are definitely worth…
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