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This Must Be the Place

This Must Be the Place

Bracing aesthetic and gentle humanity despite risking absurdity at times

(4 stars)19 Mar 2012

(15) 119min There is a strong sense of the baroque running through the films of Paolo Sorrentino, not least his bravura portrait of former Italian Prime Minister Andreotti in Il Divo. His first English language venture This Must Be The Place neither…

Director Paolo Sorrentino discusses This Must Be the Place

Director Paolo Sorrentino discusses the Sean Penn-starring This Must Be the Place

The drama merges themes of America, rock music and the Holocaust

19 Mar 2012

The protagonist at the heart of Paolo Sorrentino’s This Must be the Place isn’t your typical Nazi-hunter. Endearingly played by Sean Penn, Cheyenne is a retired rock star, now living in Dublin, whose mental and physical faculties have been impaired by…

The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick's sprawling epic a sermon urging re-engagement with spirituality

(4 stars)17 Jun 2011

(12A) 138min Terrence Malick often seems to be the last apostle of rugged individualism still at work in the American film industry. He painstakingly crafts films that are symphonic in structure with the character of poetic, intensely personal…

Fair Game

Fair Game

Thriller based on a true story, starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts

(3 stars)2 Mar 2011

(12A) 107min The CIA leak that effectively ended CIA operative Valerie Plame’s career, and the subsequent fallout that revealed a line of corruption leading all the way from Republican low-lives Karl Rove and 'Scooter' Libby to the Whitehouse…

Sean Penn

Sean Penn charged

Celebrity Gossip

20 Feb 2010

Sean Penn has been charged with attacking a photographer. The 'Milk' actor could be jailed for up to 18 months if found guilty of criminal battery and vandalism in relation to an incident last October. The 49-year-old star was detained by police…

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This Must be the Place
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(4 stars) Reclusive rock star Cheyenne (Penn) goes in search of the SS officer who humiliated his father at Auschwitz. A weird and sometimes wonderful mixture of road movie and revenge drama from the director of Il Divo, with a fearlessly idiosyncratic but endearing performance from Penn, superb visuals and a great score.
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25 May–31 May Mon 8.15pm; Tue 11.30am; Wed 7.15pm; Thu 6pm; Fri 8.30pm; Sat 5pm; Sun 5.15pm Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
29 May–31 May Tue–Thu 7.30pm macrobert, Stirling