After receiving mediocre reviews at the Cannes Film Festival last May, the first trailer for Sean Penn’s conflict zone romance-drama starring his ex-fiancee Charlize Theron has landed. “The Last Face” focuses on the relationship between Dr. Wren played by Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem’s character Dr. Miguel Leon, two doctors working in war-torn Liberia who […]...
- 11/23/2016
- by Sylvia Ogweng
- ET Canada
There is a moment in Sean Penn’s new film — for some reason screening this week in competition in Cannes — when, having navigated the safe passage of a group of refugees from Liberia to Sierra Leone, Charlize Theron’s aid worker asks herself, “In this place of so much war, had I found peace?” It’s a paradoxical query in which basically everything right and terribly wrong about The Last Face can be found. Indeed, cakes are being had and eaten by all involved.
Penn — an active humanitarian who enjoys commendably passing bags of rice out of the backs of trucks — would like nothing more than to educate his audience on the daily horrors of this sort of work on the front line. Good for him. However, while perched upon that high horse, he chooses to also use those horrors as a backdrop and catalyst for a romance between two...
Penn — an active humanitarian who enjoys commendably passing bags of rice out of the backs of trucks — would like nothing more than to educate his audience on the daily horrors of this sort of work on the front line. Good for him. However, while perched upon that high horse, he chooses to also use those horrors as a backdrop and catalyst for a romance between two...
- 5/20/2016
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
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