The story of Sean Penn is that of a man considered one of the best actors of his generation, and honored by his profession: two Oscars, a Golden Globe, a Silver Bear in Berlin, two Volpi Cups in Venice , a Palme at Cannes and an Honorary César… He is almost a legend during his lifetime. However, this list obscures a relationship of love tinged with hatred between man and industry. Sean Penn has built his career and his work in opposition to the face of America as it likes to contemplate itself in its Hollywood reflection. Heir to the new Hollywood and the dirty realism of Bukowski, his filmography paints the image of a “new America”: that of the “low life”, the dispossessed and the downgraded, the prostitutes and the outsiders. Whether as an actor or as a director, he reverses all the great myths of American cinema, mirrors of mainstream America. This documentary aims to reveal the unique imprint that Sean Penn leaves on the “dream industry”. Through his commitments, Sean Penn has strived to deconstruct each of the Hollywood myths. Sometimes in a frontal way, sometimes in a candid way, he embraces them while thinking of diverting them, crushing them to recompose himself as a tutelary figure of the American left in the cinema. Sean Penn synthesizes the entire dissident culture, a possibility of a real “New World”, as opposed to the unfulfilled promises of liberal America.
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