Sean Penn is showcasing the talents of his daughter, Dylan Penn, in his upcoming drama,.
11.07.2021 - 02:09 / variety.com
Sean Penn looked like he was about to cry at the Saturday night premiere of “Flag Day.”The drama earned a four-minute standing ovation broken up by remarks from Penn, praising his daughter, Dylan Frances Penn, for her debut lead role in a movie.Penn takes on double duties in the film, as both director and actor, playing John Vogel, a real life bank robber and con artist.
The character’s birthday falls on June 14, thus inspiring the film’s title.Dylan plays his daughter Jennifer, an aspiring
.Sean Penn is showcasing the talents of his daughter, Dylan Penn, in his upcoming drama,.
Eddie Vedder‘s daughter Olivia has provided vocals on the song that soundtracks the latest film from Sean Penn.The first trailer for Flag Day, a new drama directed by the Oscar-winner, features Olivia singing a new track called ‘My Father’s Daughter’.Written by the Pearl Jam frontman and Once songwriter Glen Hansard, the track is said to be a moving ode to adopting the traits of your parents, regardless of whether you meant to.It mirrors the storyline of the film – which stars Penn and his
The trailer for Sean Penn and daughter Dylan‘s new movie has been released!
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Jennifer Yuma editorSean Penn’s upcoming film “Flag Day” has released its first trailer, featuring Penn and his children, Dylan Frances Penn and Hopper Jack Penn, as the dysfunctional Vogel family.Sean Penn serves as both star and director for the movie, which is based on Jenifer Vogel’s 2004 memoir recounting her fractured relationship with her father, criminal and con-man John Vogel.
Sean Penn recently made headlines refusing to return to the set of “Gaslit” until all of the cast and crew have been vaccinated. MGM Studios have seemingly capitalized on this media attention surrounding Penn, as they’ve released a brand new trailer for his latest directorial effort “Flag Day” that the studio scooped up during the Cannes Film Festival.
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The French Dispatch was given a nine-minute standing ovation following its premiere in Cannes.The film, described as a love letter to journalists, premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival yesterday (July 12) ahead of its public release later this year.Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Timothée Chalamet, Tilda Swinton, Elisabeth Moss and more star in the film, which follows an anthology format to tell several stories set in 19th century France.All the film’s stars were in attendance for the premiere,
Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” on Monday night at the Cannes Film Festival, it almost felt like pre-pandemic times.The streets near the Palais were shut down. The crowds were screaming.
Sean Penn poses with his daughter, Dylan Penn, at the photo call for Flag Day during the 2021 Cannes Film Festival on Sunday (July 11) in Cannes, France.
Just a few days on the heels of “Stillwater,” another American entry in the Cannes Film Festival main competition section explores the complicated relationship between a father and daughter rooted in down-home Americana and close brushes with the law. “Flag Day” marks Sean Penn’s latest directorial return to Cannes since the critically-lambasted “The Last Face” from 2016.
(Corrects first paragraph to say Sunday, not Saturday)CANNES, France (Reuters) -Sean Penn said on Sunday he nearly passed up the chance to act opposite his daughter Dylan for the first time in "Flag Day", his latest movie which is vying for awards at the Cannes Film Festival - until actor Matt Damon egged him on.
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Dir: Sean Penn; Starring: Dylan Penn, Sean Penn, Katheryn Winnick, Josh Brolin, Dale Dickey, Jadyn Rylee, Eddie Marsan. Cert tbc, 108 mins. Is Sean Penn’s new film a fond tribute from a father to his daughter, or just the Hollywood version of Take Your Child to Work Day? The intentions are as flatteringly fuzzy as the glowing 1970s-style camerawork in this adaptation of the American journalist Jennifer Vogel’s memoir Flim-Flam Man, about her strained relationship with her father John, an
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticAs a filmmaker, Sean Penn has always had a flinty integrity, but the movies he directs work so hard to channel the values of ’70s films — they’re moody and fatalistic, with furrowed brows, and move at a pace of drop-dead deliberation — that early on, in the days of “The Indian Runner” (1991) and “The Crossing Guard” (1995), you could just about feel the sweat of his downbeat virtue.
TheWrap’s Ben Croll calling it “a spectacularly misjudged mix of humanitarian intentions and gonzo-terrible execution.” And that means that “Flag Day,” which premiered on Saturday in the Grand Theatre Lumiere, had to be not just Penn’s return to Cannes, but his return to form – which, in a way, it is.While the film sometimes struggles with disparate tones, it’s a solid, subtle drama that opts in most cases for restraint over excess.
Director Sean Penn returns to the Cannes Film Festival today in the official competition with the first film he has ever directed in which he also stars.