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The Weinstein Company has debuted the domestic trailer for director Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must Be The Place starring Sean Penn, Frances McDormand and Judd Hirsch. Penn plays a bored ex-rock star who at age 50 lives off his royalties in Dublin until family drama starts him on a quest across America. Release date is November 2nd:
Related: Weinstein Company Acquires Sean Penn Drama ‘This Must Be The Place’
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There is a great 1920s memoir called This Must Be The Place written by Jimmy Charters, who served as bartender at many of the famous Paris bars frequented by the likes of Hemingway, Fitzgerald and other artists of the era. I always thought it would make a great movie. Can’t help but wonder if there is a copyright infringement action here for misappropriation of the title.
So weird…
You cant copyright a title. There are 2 books on Amazon with same title. This story had nothing to do with any of them. I’m sure lawyers vetted this issue.
I love Sean Penn, never fails to amaze.
Odd flick. Another oscar nod for Penn.
That….. looks….. absolutely….. awful…..
It’s not an easy sell, this movie, but it’s one of the best I’ve seen in a while. I’m no fan of Sean Penn, so was dragged in kicking and screaming by my gf (Okay, I’d made her watch ‘Starship Troopers’ the previous night, so fair’s fair). I was surprised how funny as well as moving it is, as well as having great music. If you give it a try and can go with its flow, then you might be as surprised as I was.
There is no acting involved here. This is someone filming Penn on his days off.
This was easily the best film I saw last year (in Paris). It’s an amazing movie, and Penn is fantastic in it.
This was released ages ago in Europe (alredy on DVD) and it’s actually pretty good.
Yeah. It’s already out in Australia as well.
Sean Penn’s acting in this movie is just plain weird. He is an amazing actor, but on this particular film he may have hated the producer or director. I wanted to pull my hair out just watching the trailer. No way can I sit in the theater listening to his female version of “I Am Sam” voice.
Sean. You f** up on this one
I’ve seen it. It’s a remarkable film. But we appreciate your review of the trailer to tell us your review of the film.
Thanks for your incredible insight.
Don’t know about the actual pic — but the billing block looks like it was written by The Onion — reminds me of that great “Enigma Redundancy” credit-parody cartoon in the New Yorker about 25 years ago. Let the PGA have at it!
Yeah his voice is really weird. He also seems half asleep.
This looks a hot mess….and Sean Penn needs to stop channeling Johnny Depp.
For a minute there, I thought it looked like Penn was taking over Glenn Close’s role in “103 Dalmations”.
Harvey, this is a miss….Sean Penn played ” a bored rock star ” and that’s exactly what I got watching his performance was ” boredom “…..
First of all he looked weird in drag, then his performance was emotionless and he was in a trans throughout the film…..it’s not his best perfomance….Frances Mc Dormant is usually good as well, but in this neither brought anything to their roles….it’s a shame because they’re both good actors…..maybe the rolls weren’t right for them, but then again if you’re talented you should be able to play any role! Sorry Harvey I didn’t like this one…..not a good purchase! I’ve seen better work from both of them!
The story line was not compelling…a sleeper and the acting was sleepy as well! Can you get a refund?:)
Penn looks absolutely ridiculous in that.
I decided a long time ago that if Sean Penn is on the screen, I’m not in the theater.
They filmed some of the middle-America small town scenes down the street from my old high school, so I watched a bootleg earlier this year. Penn does a very nuanced performance, rather annoying at times, but it grows on you. I doubt he’ll get Oscar-nominated. But I will watch it again.
“… so I watched a bootleg earlier this year…” No, theBigE! Bad theBigE! Bad, bad, theBigE! That’s NOT how we do things round here! Now send me $10,000,000 or I turn you in!
Is there really a need to use the holocaust in another movie? Isn’t it just lazy and a tad distasteful to use numbered arm tattoo as shorthand for profound angst, historical cruelty and FEELING? Perfect Weinstein material: gimmickry masking derivative shallowness.
you thing the single biggest historical event of the 20th Century is “used up” for the movies?
Is it ok to use Cold War or the Civil Rights Movement in a movie? Well abiyt a thousand times more people died in the Holocaust.
If you don’t like this trailer then don’t see the movie, but no reason to blackball the entire subject.
It’s more than lazy and a tad disgraceful, it’s actually a rip off of the brilliant film, “Harold and Maude.” Director Hal Ashby used the Nazi arm tattoo poignantly in his black comedy way back in 1971. And even though Penn is sporting a Robert Smith look, he appears to be channeling Bud Cort’s performance as the disconnected Harold. Another scene in the trailer above seems lifted from Mr. Ashby’s film as Penn’s character lifts his head out of the window to feel the wind blowing upon his face…Harold does the same with emotional weight as Cat Steven’s music plays wistfully in the background. Hollywood has lost its creative edge but it’s criminal to steal another Director’s craft.
ASCH:
Thanks. You are so correct. It’s as if the writer (writers/polishers?) felt he had to graft a ‘poignant”driving force’ plot point onto a standard mid life crisis/aging rocker story. So he blatantly stole.
I welcome the upcoming Weinstein Oscar campaign.
The arm tattoo in this film doesn’t serve anything resembling the function it does in Harold and Maude (which incidentally comes straight out of Colin Higgins’ script–it was hardly something Ashby came up with); in fact, it’s basically the starting point of the movie. Penn’s performance is exactly what you would expect for the part (addled washed-up rocker who’s presumably fried half his brain with drugs), and having seen the actual movie there’s nothing distinctively “Cortian” about it; Harold/Cort’s “disconnection” is of a very different kind and expressed itself in a totally different manner. That leaves the leaning-out-the-window shot, which has become a road-movie cliche (gotta find something for them to do in all those driving-across-the-country transitional segments), and isn’t blocked or framed anything like the equivalent shot you’re referring to (which has Cort, in a side angle, leaning his head on the window frame for about half a second before cutting away to another location).
This looks HORRIBLE. It never ceases to amaze me that films like this (bad ones) still get made. Perhaps it would be wise to erect a barricade outside the theater that says “Caution, Man ACTING”.
“This Must Be The Place” is also the name of a Talking Heads song.
David Byrne actually shows up at one point (as himself) to perform the song. He also has a very brief scene with Penn which is pretty much the best part of the whole mess.
man, you guys seriously need to chill out. omg, it doesn’t look like transformers! aaaaaah! thank GOD people out there are making weird looking movies like this that you can actually still remember more than 48 hours after seeing it. love whatever penn is doing in this trailer. love frances. sorry to all of you people who probably only eat at chain restaurants and are afraid of something different. looks AWESOME. can’t wait to see!
minus the chain restaurant dig, i’m right behind ya
I’ve seen it. An ill-conceived film if there ever was one. Penn playing a retarded Robert Smith just doesn’t work. The worst thing about it is every two minutes some crappy “indie” music starts playing, a blatant attempt to get the audience to “feel something”. It just doesn’t work on every level. Worst movie of 2012, in my opinion.