This Must Be The Place (2012)

Director Paolo Sorrentino

In 2008, Sean Penn, Jury president of Cannes Film Festival, awarded Paolo Sorrentino with the Jury Prize for »Il divo«. Penn used this opportunity to declare he was eager to make a movie with Sorrentino. Three years later, Penn and Sorrentino returned to Cannes together with »This Must Be The Place«, the Italian director's first English-speaking film.Winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Cannes this year, »This Must Be The Place« is a moral road movie. The film invokes Wim Wenders' »Paris Texas« through its melancholy travels, gorgeous cinematography, and Harry Dean Stanton’s supporting role. The score is composed by David Byrne (of The Talking Heads, whose song is the film’s namesake) and accompanies the former idol's journey. »This Must Be The Place« explores affiliations and clichés through the moving portrait of a sardonic fifty-year-old ex rock star who will never settle for the lifestyle of mediocrity with which the world tries to constrain him. - Stockholm Film Festival 2011