This Must Be the Place2012
This Must Be the Place (2012)
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Cast
as Cheyenne
as Mary
as Jane
as Mordecai Midler
as Rachel
as Robert Plath
as Aloise Lange
as Dorothy Shore
as Himself
as Mary's Mother
as Ernie Ray
as Richard
as Jeffrey
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Critic Reviews for This Must Be the Place
All Critics (82) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (29)
The conceit of showing a pop-culture figure's life out of the limelight is beyond hackneyed, but the film's incongruous visual splendor and Penn's all-or-nothing commitment keep Sorrentino's unabashed folly afloat for a while.
Sorrentino's aggressively life-affirming movie has wormed its way into the hearts of a surprising number of usually sensible, discerning critics.
Writer-director Paolo Sorrentino handles the story with surprising thoughtfulness.
Although "This Must Be the Place" holds our attention, it's a little difficult to say where it's headed.
If you give Penn (and the movie) a chance, the character works, movingly and somewhat miraculously.
The movie replaces emotional precision and intellectual honesty with syrupy sincerity and insistence.
Audience Reviews for This Must Be the Place
A messy movie that throws many narrative elements together without any cohesion, drifting from odd character study to hunt-the-Nazi road-movie, and it is so rambling and disjointed in its structure that it feels pointless, with Sean Penn in an extremely annoying performance.
Super Reviewer
Inert and disappointing
Super Reviewer
A retired Goth pop star tracks down a Nazi who oppressed his deceased father. The script is a bit wonky, but Sean Penn has some great moments in a unique against-type role as the effeminate, tormented ex-rocker.
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This Must Be the Place Quotes
| Cheyenne: | My instincts tell me pedantry is an essential characteristic for capturing Nazis. |
| Cheyenne: | Why is Lady Gaga? |
| Cheyenne: | No, Jane, I'm not trying to find myself. I'm in New Mexico, not India. |
| Rachel: | Fear always saves as. |
| Cheyenne: | always. |
| Cheyenne: | Always. |
| Cheyenne: | But you have to choose a moment in your life, even one, to not be afraid. |
| Rachel: | Have you choose that moment? |