Sean Penn Slams Movie Producers, Calls Healthcare System a Racket in Cannes Press Conference

thewrap.com:

TheWrap called it “visceral and vicious,” and overall it has received largely negative reviews after premiering in the Main Competition in Cannes on Thursday.While Sheridan initially said that he’d had a good time making the film, Penn took a different tack. “It’s a little more gray to me that we had a really good time,” he said. “I think we had a really valuable time.

We had a great partnership between the actors and (Sauvaire’s) crew. However difficult it was, it was great to be a part of it.

and later to be able to process it.”Penn has spent the last several years doing work in trouble spots around the world, including Haiti and Ukraine, and he said he found connections between that work and the job done by paramedics like the ones he and Sheridan played.“There’s a lot of overlap,” he said. “I’ve been working in emergency response for 12 years, 13 years now, and in the two years in making ‘Black Flies,’ I was 16, 17 hours a day for two years working in a partnership with the L.A.

Fire Department and their paramedics. A lot of friendships came out of that, and a lot of conversations related to mental health.”In the film, the paramedics all suffer from stress because of the overwhelming nature of their jobs. “Last night (at the premiere), it occurred to me that the overwhelming nature of all that for a human soul to process reverberates through all of our lives today, and certainly all of our children’s lives.