American movies are among the leading candidates for the biggest award at the Cannes Film Festival, the Palme d’Or. Others got booed. The prize for worst reception so far goes to “The Last Face” directed by Sean Penn. The movie star-director-political activist attempts a story about the romantic and humanitarian struggles of two aid workers in Liberia. It stars Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem. Some critics wonder why the film centers on their relationship instead of the horrors faced by the local people they are supposed to help. Benjamin Lee of the Guardian online writes, “This is not a film about Penn helping people, it’s a film to show how much he wants to be seen helping people.” The movie was severely panned on Twitter after its Cannes debut. Tweets described “The Last Face” as racist, “transcendentally bad” and “a chore to sit through.” Joachim Kurz tweeted “The Last Face feels like competition in suffering. Who suffers most: Theron? Bardem? The Refugees? Or maybe the viewers?”