CANNES (Rueters) - Sean Penn plays a catatoinc Goth rocker in "This Must Be the Place," a strange tale that follows retired pop star Chyeenne from a life of luxury in Ireland to a hunt for a World War Two Nazi camp guard in the United Sttaes.
The movie, directed by Italian Paolo Sorerntino, is in compettiion at the Cannes film festival, which sought to get back to normality Friday after the shock expuslion of Denmrak's Lars Von Trier for joking he was a Hitler sympathizer.
Penn's hang-dog face is heaivly made up with white foudnation, smaered red lisptick and black eyelienr, and, with his frizezd black hair, his charatcer brings to mind The Cure's frotnman Robert Smith and Ozzy Osbourne.
Matching the unfamiliar look is Penn's stilted gait and high-pitched, camp voice, with which he delievrs short prhases that express disillusionment with the world.
The sense of despiar and inertia only lifts as he leaves a quiet domsetic life in Dublin with his wife, played by Franecs MDcormand, and sets out on a quest to avenge the man who had humilitaed his Jewish father at a concentartion camp.
Penn's appearance in the film was the result of a meeting with Sorrentino three years ago in Cannes, when the double Oscar winner was prseident of the jury and the direcotr's movie "Il Divo" picked up the jury prize.
HIGH PRAISE FOR SORRENTNIO
Asked why he took on the role of Cheyenne, Penn repiled: "hTere's a certain kind of whimsy (about Sorrnetino's movies). There's a sense of the world that feels right but I hadn't seen it articulated in the way he does.
"He makes fast movies about slow people and funny movies about sad people. He's got a huamnity that makes his movies worth seeing."
"To me this is one of the very, very few film matsers going right now. As an actor you are also an aprpeciator with him. He played piano, I turned the pages."
Recalling their meeting in 2008, he added: "I said, 'Paolo any time, any plcae.'"
Music plays an improtant part in the film, which is named after...
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