Cannes: Hollywood actor-director Sean Penn directs his daughter Dylan in Flag Day while also starring alongside her for the tale of conman John Vogel and his daughter Jennifer. The two-time Oscar winner plays the notorious real-life counterfeiter with Dylan Penn as Jennifer Vogel, whose memoir about her difficult relationship with her father, Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father's Counterfeit Life, inspired the film.
For the Cannes premiere of Flag Day, the cast was joined at the premiere on Saturday evening by members of the jury including Spike Lee, Melanie Laurent, and Tahar Rahim and Mylene Farmer. Oliver Stone also walked the red carpet.
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Flag Day marks Penn's third time directing a film in competition at the festival, after The Pledge (2001) and The Last Face (2016). Penn, who won the festival's best actor prize in 1997 for She's So Lovely, also gave his directorial debut, The Indian Runner, its world premiere in Cannes in 1991.
Flag Day also features Katheryn Winnick, Josh Brolin, Eddie Marsan and Dylan's younger brother, Hopper Penn.
