You know, we don’t have nearly enough stories about Frances McDormand on this blog. An intelligent, classy lady, superbly talented actress, a woman who does her job and leads a quiet, low key life, free of publicity-whoring or spouting off on subjects she knows nothing about…. Okay, that’s why we never talk about Frances McDormand. So let’s talk about Sean Penn instead. This little item concerns McDormand’s latest role, starring opposite Sean Penn in This Must Be the Place, the first English-language feature from Italian director Paolo Sorrentino. Mildly interesting (meaning not very interesting), until you hit the description of the film:

Pic, Sorrentino’s English-language debut, concerns an aging rock star who decides to hunt down the Nazi criminal who ordered his father’s execution in a concentration camp.

Quite a switch from Ms. McDormand’s usual projects with the Coen brothers. This sounds more like the Zucker brothers, circa Top Secret. (And, yes, Sean Penn is the rock star.) Sadly, however, this probably won’t be played for laughs. And casting Sean Penn as the “aging rock star” protagonist might just be what it takes to make me do the unthinkable and root for the Nazi. Unless the Zucker brothers really do come on board, and the concentration camp baddie is played by Charlie Sheen.