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This Must Be the Place

Italy, France, Ireland

2011

118 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
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DIR Paolo Sorrentino

EXEC Ronald M. Bozman

PROD Francesca Cima, Nicola Giuliano, Andreas Olavarria

SCR Umberto Contarello, Paolo Sorrentino

DP Luca Bigazzi

CAST Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Eve Hewson, Kerry Condon, Harry Dean Stanton, Joyce Van Patten, David Byrne, Olwen Fouéré, Shea Whigham, Liron Levo, Heinz Lieven, Simon Delaney, Seth Adkins, Gordon Michaels

ED Cristiano Travaglioli

PROD DES Stefania Cella

MUSIC David Byrne, Will Oldham

SOUND Srđan Kurpjel

Cannes (In Competition): Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, London (Film on the Square), Stockholm (Open Zone), Sundance (Spotlight)

Synopsis

Cheyenne is a former rock star. At 50 he still dresses “Goth” and lives in Dublin off his royalties. The death of his father, with whom he wasn’t on speaking terms, brings him back to New York. He discovers his father had an obsession: to seek revenge for a humiliation he had suffered. Cheyenne decides to pick up where his father left off, and starts a journey, at his own pace, across America. –Cannes Film Festival

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Paolo Sorrentino

Paolo Sorrentino (born May 31, 1970) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Naples.Sorrentino’s first film as screenwriter, Polvere di Napoli, was released in 1998. He began directing several short movies, like L’amore non ha confini, in 1998, and La notte lunga, in 2001. His debut with a long feature is One Man Up (L’uomo in più), awarded with the Nastro D’Argento for the best young director.

He achieved international recognition in 2004 for his stylish thriller, The Consequences of Love (Le conseguenze dell’amore). The film, which explores the mindset of a lonely businessman being used as a pawn by the Mafia, won many awards and was nominated for the Palme D’Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Sorrentino’s next feature, The Family Friend (L’amico di famiglia), was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May1 and the London Film Festival in October 2006. It tells the story of a malicious septuagenarian loan-shark who develops a fixation with the beautiful… read more

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ΞRIC B∆D TASTΞ

27May12

"would you go to a date with me" - "what kind of music do you listen?" that's the perfect question & the scene in the escalator was so cool. the movie has very cool & funny parts - some boring & some dramatic ones. but the movie is very entertaining & Sean Penn's role as Cheyenne is totally wierd, but such a good acting.

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Matt Richards

26May12

Incredibly refreshing film-making with this wonderfully weird and human road trip. Sean Penn proves he is absolutely fearless as a damaged man seeking to reconcile his past with his future and the cameo by Harry Dean Stanton in the desert dinner is a beautiful hat-tip to Paris Texas. The cinematography is outstanding as is the score. Lyrical, inventive and surprisingly profound. 4 stars

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janveneziani

21May12

Irônico e divertido.

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14May12

Male Siouxsie Sioux: Nazi hunter

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Review: THIS MUST BE THE PLACE

By Twitchfilm.com on March 20, 2012
For some people This Must Be The Place is going to be the new Sean Penn flick, for others it will be the new Paolo Sorrentino film. The difference may seem futile, but based on this simple distinction
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By Twitchfilm.com on December 17, 2011
Having opened to mixed response in Cannes, Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be The Place will almost certainly be remembered mostly as ‘that movie where Sean Penn dresses up like Robert Smith from The Cure’
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Cannes 2011: Bizarre Clip of Sean Penn & Frances McDormand in Paolo Sorrentino's THIS MUST BE THE PLACE

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This Must Be the Place

By Bobby Wise on February 24, 2012

The first press screening I attended was “This Must Be the Place” by Paolo Sorrentino. It’s a terrible film featuring a hammy Sean Penn in the starring role of a dopey aging goth rocker named Cheyenne…  read review

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