High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! This Must Be the Place is a 2011 drama film directed by Paolo Sorrentino, written by Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello. It stars Sean Penn and Frances McDormand. The film deals with a middle-aged wealthy rock star who becomes bored in his retirement and takes on the quest of finding his father`s tormentor, a Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the United States.