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Peacekeeping Penn: Exarchapoulos & Theron Tapped for “The Last Space”

Published on April 8, 2014

We found out this morning (via ThePlaylist folks) that Sean Penn (the filmmaker) was among the curious Blue Is the Warmest Color onlookers and proving that a Palme d’Or win can pay out huge dividends (it was a major showcase for it’s lead actress Adèle Exarchapoulos) we now learn that (thanks to TheWrap), Charlize Theron will also board The Last Space which might be something close to his humanitarian heart. Lensing is expected to begin in July.

Gist: This is based on the Liberian and Sudanese conflict and unfolds in refuge camps.

Worth Noting: Exarchapoulos got her debut in Matthew Porterfield’s I Used to Be Darker.

Do We Care?: We became fans of the filmmaker with his meditative Into the Wild and knowing very little here: we feel that this might hit the right notes or make us want to pull our hair out.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).