This Must Be the Place (2011)

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Cheyenne (Sean Penn) is a wealthy former rock star, now bored and jaded in his retirement in Dublin. He travels to New York to reconcile with his estranged father during his final hours, only to arrive too late. After learning the true extent of his father's humiliation in Auschwitz at the hands of former SS Officer Aloise Lange, Cheyenne begins a journey across the country to track down Lange, who is now hiding out in America.

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This Must Be the Place is a 2011 drama film directed by Paolo Sorrentino, written by Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello. It stars Sean Penn and Frances McDormand. The film deals with a middle-aged wealthy rock star who becomes bored in his retirement and takes on the quest of finding his father's tormentor, a Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the United States.
The film was an Italian majority production with co-producers in France and Ireland. Principal photography began in August 2010. Filming took place in Ireland, Italy, as well as the states of Michigan, New Mexico and New York. The film was in competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

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Paolo Sorrentino said Sean Penn told him he wanted to work with him after seeing Sorrentino's film Il Divo at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, where Penn headed the jury. With Penn in mind, Sorrentino wrote the screenplay for This Must Be the Place with Umberto Contarello. Sorrentino had for a long time been fascinated by Nazi war criminals who had managed to keep their former crimes secret, and went on to live ordinary lives. To add an element of irony to a story about such a person, Sorrentino came up with Penn's character: "a slow, lazy, rock star who was bored enough and closed in his self-referential world to the point of being, seemingly, the last person who would embark on a crazy search for a Nazi criminal, probably dead by now, across the United States." Sorrentino was attracted to this juxtaposition as it would add a great risk of failure, which he considers vital for the prospect of a story to be good.

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In selecting the name of the rock star and his band Sorrentino thought of one of the most inspired names in rock star history, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and changed it somewhat to come up with "Cheyenne and the Fellows".[5] The look of the character was inspired by Robert Smith of The Cure. Sorrentino had seen The Cure perform several times in his youth, and when he went to see them again in 2008, he was fascinated by the fact that Smith, even off the stage, still wore the same kind of attire as in the past: "Here was a fifty-year-old who still completely identified with a look which, by definition, is that of an adolescent. But there was nothing pathetic about it. There was just this one thing that, in the movies and in life, creates an incredible feeling of wonder: the extraordinary, a unique and thrilling exception." As soon as the screenplay was finished, Sorrentino sent it to Penn, who accepted to star

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..:: Italian synopsis ::..
Cheyenne, ebreo, cinquantenne, ex rock star di musica goth, rossetto rosso e cerone bianco, conduce una vita più che benestante a Dublino. Trafitto da una noia che tende, talora, ad interpretare come leggera depressione. La sua è una vita da pensionato prima di aver raggiunto l'età della pensione. La morte del padre, con il quale aveva da tempo interrotto i rapporti, lo riporta a New York. Qui, attraverso la lettura di alcuni diari, mette a fuoco la vita del padre negli ultimi trent'anni. Anni dedicati a cercare ossessivamente un criminale nazista rifugiatosi negli Stati Uniti. Accompagnato da un'inesorabile lentezza e da nessuna dote da investigatore, Cheyenne decide, contro ogni logica, di proseguire le ricerche del padre e, dunque, di mettersi alla ricerca, attraverso gli Stati Uniti, di un novantenne tedesco probabilmente morto di vecchiaia.

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