Catcalls and criticism at Cannes for Sean Penn’s “Last Face”

“The Last Face” a film by Sean Penn and starring Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem, which has been entered for the Palme d’Or, was received on Friday with jeers and criticism.

Laughter from the audience accompanied some of the most intense moments of the movie, in which the director allowed the beauty of the images to dominate the plot and the credibility of the characters.

Charlize Theron is the only one to save a little face in the movie in which costar Javier Bardem, as well as supporting actors Jean Reno and Adele Exarchopoulos, seem lost.

The story of doctors who are dedicated to humanitarian aid is mixed with what seems to be a love story between Theron and Bardem.

“It’s definitely the worst movie I’ve seen in Cannes”; “Sean Penn needs to stop directing”; “It’s corny, bad, absolute rubbish”; “A laughable disaster” and “an appalling failure” were some of the phrases that journalists bestowed on the film after its premiere.

“The Last Face” is the second movie for Penn as a director to be presented in Cannes after “The Pledge”, which also competed for the Palme d’Or in 2001.