Uploaded July 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
UNSEEN INTERNATIONAL CUT of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE out on DVD + Blu-ray on 13th August.
Director Paolo Sorrentino's much-anticipated English language debut is a comic, charmingly oddball road movie. Starring two time Academy Award winner Sean Penn as
Cheyenne, a middle-aged wealthy former Goth rock star now bored and jaded in his
retirement, living in Dublin off his royalties with his wife Jane (Frances
McDormand).
Learning his father is close to death, he travels to New York in the hope of being
reconciled with him during his final hours, only to arrive too late. Having been
estranged for over 30 years, it is only now in death that he learns the true extent
of his father's humiliation in Auschwitz at the hands of former SS Officer Aloise
Muller - an event he was determined to avenge. With the help of Nazi-hunter Mordecai
Midler (Judd Hirsch) Cheyenne decides to pick up where his father left off, and
embarks on a life-altering journey, at his own pace, into the heartland of America.
As his quest unfolds, and reawakened by the people he encounters, Cheyenne must
finally decide if it's redemption he seeks or revenge.
Featuring the fantastic soundtrack created by David Byrne and Will
Oldham.
UNSEEN INTERNATIONAL CUT of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE out on DVD + Blu-ray on 13th August.
Director Paolo Sorrentino's much-anticipated English language debut is a comic, charmingly oddball road movie. Starring two time Academy Award winner Sean Penn as
Cheyenne, a middle-aged wealthy former Goth rock star now bored and jaded in his
retirement, living in Dublin off his royalties with his wife Jane (Frances
McDormand).
Learning his father is close to death, he travels to New York in the hope of being
reconciled with him during his final hours, only to arrive too late. Having been
estranged for over 30 years, it is only now in death that he learns the true extent
of his father's humiliation in Auschwitz at the hands of former SS Officer Aloise
Muller - an event he was determined to avenge. With the help of Nazi-hunter Mordecai
Midler (Judd Hirsch) Cheyenne decides to pick up where his father left off, and
embarks on a life-altering journey, at his own pace, into the heartland of America.
As his quest unfolds, and reawakened by the people he encounters, Cheyenne must
finally decide if it's redemption he seeks or revenge.
Featuring the fantastic soundtrack created by David Byrne and Will
Oldham.
