Citizen Penn review – Hollywood star’s vanity project lifts Haiti – The Guardian

Actor, director, screenwriter and now novelist Sean Penn has had some mixed notices for his non-showbiz activities and his dramatic interventions in various international situations including his defiant declaration of faith in the late Hugo Chávez and his successor as Venezuelan president, the now-notorious Nicolás Maduro. And the naysayers and the eye-rollers may not be entirely mollified by this documentary about Sean Penns charity work in Haiti, which does come across in some ways as a 93-minute…

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