Cheyenne - This Must Be the Place
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| German title | Cheyenne - This Must Be the Place |
| Original title | This must be the place |
| Country of production | Italy , France , Ireland |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Paolo Sorrentino |
| script | Umberto Contarello, Paolo Sorrentino |
| production | Ronald M. Bozman |
| music | David Byrne , Will Oldham |
| camera | Luca Bigazzi |
| cut | Cristiano Travaglioli |
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Cheyenne - This Must Be the Place is a feature film directed by Paolo Sorrentino that was shot in the United States , Ireland and Italy in 2010 . The international co-production premiered in 2011 in the competition at the 64th Cannes International Film Festival and was released in German cinemas on November 10, 2011.
In addition to the main actor Sean Penn , the cast also includes Frances McDormand , who plays his wife, as well as Harry Dean Stanton and Heinz Lieven .
action
The rock star Cheyenne used to enjoy great success with his band "Cheyenne and the Fellows". When two teenagers took their own lives inspired by his music, he gave up the band and the music. To this day, he is plagued by guilt. Twenty years after the abrupt end of his career, he leads a monotonous, isolated existence in his villa in Dublin . Only his lovingly caring wife Jane, his sex-obsessed boyfriend Jeffrey and the sad Goth girl Mary, whose mother is waiting for the return of her son, offer variety. Plagued by boredom, Cheyenne speculates on the stock market. On the side, he tries to bring Mary together with the shy Desmond.
When the news reaches him that his father is dying, he sets off by ship to New York because of his fear of flying . Cheyenne has been out of touch with his father for thirty years and is too late to make up with him. Through his notes he finds out that his father dedicated his life to the search for Alois Lange, a former SS overseer who once tortured him as a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz . Since the well-known Jewish Nazi hunter Mordecai Midler doesn't meet him, Cheyenne sets out to continue on his father's path and to find Lange.
A trail leads him to Bad Ax ( Michigan ) to see Lange's wife, Cheyenne poses as her former student. Although she claims that her husband has already passed away, Cheyenne finds evidence of a granddaughter, Rachel. He goes to Alamogordo , New Mexico , where Rachel lives with her son Tommy. She confides in Cheyenne and reveals that her grandfather is in Huntsville, Utah . After Cheyenne bought a gun, he found out that Lange lived there under the name Peter Smith. He goes to his property, but finds it empty. In the dormitory he meets Midler, who has found out Lange's whereabouts and is also ready to help Cheyenne.
When Cheyenne confronts Lange, he decides not to kill him. Instead, he humiliates him by forcing him to walk naked through the snow-covered landscape. He finally feels grown up, overcomes his fear of flying and flies back to Ireland. When Mary's mother looks out the window, she sees a man with short hair. Hope germinates, but by the way he walks you can recognize Cheyenne, who has shed his black Goth look . He stops in front of the garden fence and smiles at her. She smiles back.
criticism
“The imaginative portrait of a dazzling" fictional character ", whose search for identity manifests itself poetically and with bizarre humor the sensitivities of a certain music and pop culture. The theming of the Nazi past remains a rather questionable pretext for the development of a journey that leads the strange hero to a kind of self-discovery. "
“'Cheyenne' is a prime role for Sean Penn, in which he actually shows everything he can, his comical potential, the ability to move you to tears and make the sun come up with a single smile - there is really only one the only reason not to enjoy this performance as Cheyenne as a viewer: if you have something inherent in Sean Penn. A film full of wonderful puzzles and enraptured images […] A film that collects strange moments, bizarre scenes and strange encounters like some people do with bumblebee dolls. "
"At first it is a shock to see Sean Penn, the epitome of the gritty Bruce Springsteen-style man, in his costume as a 50-year-old man who still looks like Robert Smith of The Cure did in the 1980s: a Goth with teased, black hair and a peeping fistulous voice. One wonders if that can work. It can: More and more, this outdated scarecrow is proving to be the ideal guide into the unusual, colorful world of Sorrentino films, in which everything is completely different from what one would generally expect - except that the result is as emotional and lasting as one can hope for sparkling clean narrative cinema. "
Awards
- 2011 Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival
- 2012 David di Donatello a . a. in the categories of Best Screenplay, Best Camera and Best Music
- 2012 Nastro d'Argento for best director, best camera and best production design
Web links
- Cheyenne - This Must Be the Place in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cheyenne - This Must Be the Place at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cheyenne - This Must Be the Place. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ "Home is just a feeling" by Susan Vahabzadeh in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on November 12, 2011
- ↑ "Cheyenne - This Must Be the Place" on Kino.de