This Must Be the Place

2011
T
1h 58min

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6,7/10

37.582

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Sean Penn in This Must Be the Place (2011)

Cheyenne, a retired rock star living off his royalties in Dublin, returns to New York City to find the man responsible for a humiliation suffered by his recently deceased father during WWII.

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Dark Comedy Road Trip Adventure Comedy Drama

Cheyenne, una rockstar ritiratasi dalle scene che vive a Dublino grazie ai diritti d'autore, torna a New York per trovare l'uomo responsabile di un'umiliazione subita dal suo defunto padre d... Leggi tuttoCheyenne, una rockstar ritiratasi dalle scene che vive a Dublino grazie ai diritti d'autore, torna a New York per trovare l'uomo responsabile di un'umiliazione subita dal suo defunto padre durante la seconda guerra mondiale.Cheyenne, una rockstar ritiratasi dalle scene che vive a Dublino grazie ai diritti d'autore, torna a New York per trovare l'uomo responsabile di un'umiliazione subita dal suo defunto padre durante la seconda guerra mondiale.

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VALUTAZIONE IMDb

6,7/10

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Premi
- 19 vittorie e 17 candidature totali

Quiz
The organ-like instrument that David Byrne plays for Cheyenne is a variation of Byrne's "house organ." Byrne created the organ in 2008 as part of an art installation project in New York City. Instead of playing musical notes, each key on the organ transmits a signal through a wire, which in turn "plays" the building: for example, motors vibrating a set of metal girders, hoses blowing air through the building's water pipes, or metal rods striking the radiator.

Blooper
Cheyenne refers to the band as "The Talking Heads". David Byrne and group went so far as to name an album "The Name of This Band is Talking Heads" to help people drop the "the".

Citazioni
Rachel: No shit! Now I remember you. You sang with Mick Jagger once.
Cheyenne: I know him. He's a good singer, I like the way he dances.
Rachel: Listen your cheeseburger is a bit too well done. You don't mind do ya? Unfortunately, that's life!
Cheyenne: You know what the problem is... Rachel?
Rachel: What?
Cheyenne: Without realizing it, we go from an age where we say: "My life will be that" to an age where we say: "That's life."

Versioni alternative
The international version is approximately 7-minute shorter than the version screened at the Cannes Film Festival and released in Italy.

Connessioni
Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Sean Penn Performances (2013)

Colonne sonore
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Written by David Byrne (as D. Byrne), Tina Weymouth (as T. Weymouth), Jerry Harrison (as J. Harrison), Chris Frantz (as C. Franz)
Performed by David Byrne
(c) Warner Bros. Music Inc. / Index Music Inc.
Licensed by Warner Bros. Music Italy S.r.l.

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5/10

Great acting, not that great a movie

I thought this would be a better movie. The premise is quite interesting and I usually like these artsy dramedies. This one on the other hand tries to be more artsy than it really is.

At first I didn't like how Sean Penn portrayed Cheyenne, but later on in the movie I completely forgot that I was watching Mr. Penn. So I guess the performance is good, and maybe I just didn't find the character to be a very interesting or likable.

This movie is slow, and I don't even mind slow movies. Hell I usually think the slower the better, but this just drags forever. The plot doesn't take off until half way thru and even then it feels like you've already watched this movie for hours.

There's an insane amount of camera trickery, almost every scene uses some camera dolly or crane thing, even if it serves no purpose other than moving the camera around in an "imaginative way". It was really distracting and I didn't find the camera work that fun to look at.

The script leaves a lot of stuff untold. There is talk about people who are seemingly important, but they are never explained who they are and while you have ideas, it's not something you'd like to spend any energy guessing. Some movies make these mind games fun, but here they're just annoying. I noticed myself thinking all the time if I had missed something, but reading at the forums here, I don't think I missed anything. This movie just doesn't inspire you to figure out those loose endings at all.

In the end I gather I just don't like the directors way of making movies. The story is quite interesting, but the way it's told just wasn't my cup of tea.