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Frances McDormand, Sean Penn, Eve Hewson Set for This Must Be the Place Movie

Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand

Stage and screen star Frances McDormand, along with Sean Penn and Eve Hewson, will be featured in This Must Be the Place, according to a report in Variety. Paolo Sorrentino will direct the film, which he has written with Umberto Contarello.

The movie focuses on an aging rock star (played by Penn) who becomes fixated on pursuing the Nazi criminal who tormented his father in a concentration camp.

McDormand was most recently seen on stage in The Wooster Group’s North Atlantic. Among her other stage credits are The Country Girl, A Streetcar Named Desire and Awake and Sing on Broadway. The actress won an Academy Award for her performance in Fargo and nominations for her work in North Country, Almost Famous, and Mississippi Burning.