Cannes Report Day 6: Sean Penn Trashes Trump, ‘Compartment No. 6’ Surprises
Sean Penn’s “Flag Day” PremieresSean Penn’s “Flag Day” premiered at the festival on Saturday, marking the third time he’s been in Main Competition section as a director — the other times for “The Pledge” in 2001 and “The Last Face” in 2016.TheWrap’s Steve Pond wrote, “While the film sometimes struggles with disparate tones, it’s a solid, subtle drama that opts in most cases for restraint over excess. It’s far closer to Penn’s more assured earlier works as a director – ‘The Indian Runner’ in 1991, ‘The Crossing Guard’ in 1995, ‘Into the Wild’ in 2007 – than to the missteps of ‘The Last Face.’”Others weren’t quite as kind.