It's amazing how Paolo Sorrentino can make films that on paper appeal to me, but in reality mostly bore me.
This Must Be The Place has so many things that speak to me: an older bored rocker, a roadtrip, an amazing soundtrack, a David Byrne cameo, ...
Based on the description I could have told you that this could be my next favorite movie, but it wasn't. Sean Penn's character felt like such a charicature that it became impossible to…

Here's something about storytelling: a story never appears out of nowhere. The stories we tell are based upon a mass of influences: the things we have read/seen/heard. The way we tell them is based on the patterns that circulate within communities. And all to often, we reuse elements we have used before: the same things pop up in several books of the same writer/movies of the same director/... (think of how coincidence always plays a big role in Paul Auster's…