He is as excited as you imagine when you meet him at the Palais des Festivals this Friday. The jerky flow, Sean Penn chains cigarette after cigarette. Sometimes, however, his blue eyes light up and his burnished face cracks with a smile. At 62, the actor has experienced everything in Cannes: the ovations for his films, "The Pledge" in 2002 and "Flag Day" in 2021, the frosty reception for "The Last Face", in 2016, and even the acting prize for "She's so lovely", in 1997. This time, he plays in "Black Flies", a thriller by Frenchman Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, in competition. Sean Penn plays an experienced New York emergency doctor who will have to team up with a young paramedic... A very dark film that takes to the guts.
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