Video: First look at Sean Penn in THIS MUST BE THE PLACE

Here is our first clip from Paolo Sorrentino‘s This Must Be The Place featuring Sean Penn as an aging rocker who looks as though he just played a gig with The Cure. The clip begins as though it's taking us behind-the-scenes and then turns into a montage featuring a music video by Penn’s character’s band and various shots from the movie. Penn is most likely lip syncing the words sung by David Byrne. Byrne collaborated on the soundtrack with Will Oldham. The film also stars  Frances McDormand, Harry Dean Stanton and Judd Hirsch, and here's a description of the story.

Cheyenne, a wealthy former rock star (Penn), now bored and jaded in his retirement embarks on a quest to find his father’s persecutor, an ex-Nazi war criminal now hiding out in the U.S. 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 is determined to avenge. So begins a life-altering journey across the heartland of America to track down and confront his father’s nemesis. As his quest unfolds, Cheyenne is reawakened by the people he encounters and his journey is transformed into one of reconciliation and self discovery. As his date with destiny arrives and he tracks down Muller, Cheyenne must finally decide if it is redemption he seeks

This Must Be The Place will play in competition at the Cannes Film Festival that begins on May 11th. Check out the clip below and share your thoughts!