Film: Penn shines on a slow journey

Reviewed this week: This Must Be The Place, directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Rating: 3/5. The Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross. Rating: 3/5.

Sean Penn in This Must Be The Place.
Sean Penn in This Must Be The Place.

This Must Be The Place

**Directed by Paolo Sorrentino**

**Nationwide, cert 15A**

**Rating:** 3/5

For his first English-language film, Italian writer and director Paolo Sorrentino decamps to Dublin with the deeply eccentric and highly erratic road movie **This Must Be The Place**, inspired by the Talking Heads song of the same title and particularly the first word, 'home'.

From beneath a back-combed shock of tangled black hair ...