After time served as pop star, actress, model, cheesecake auteur, teenage pregnancy debate flashpoint, capitalist, professional celebrity, marketing guru, dancer, trophy wife, bogus accent advocate, Kaballist, children's book author, and for all we know astronaut, Madonna can finally add "feature film director" to her ridiculously rambunctious résumé.
The Material Girl is in Berlin this week for their International Film Festival, screening her first movie behind the camera: the light romantic comedy Filth and Wisdom. It's attracting a decent audience at festival screenings — albeit largely for its star-studded soundtrack, featuring performers like Ludacris, Britney Spears, and Gogol Bordello (whose Eugene Hütz narrates the film and plays one of the lead roles), as well as Madonna herself. Regardless of how well the film itself is received, it'll be an improvement on the last visit to BIFF — according to the Hollywood Reporter, she was virtually in hiding the entire time, avoiding the press attention that came from being half of the world's most reviled couple with then-husband Sean Penn.
Uh. . . so how is the movie, anyway? Going by the Reporter's review, it's "all over the place but oddly appealing", not a bad description of the director's entire life as a whole, now that we think about it. . . but the fact that the reviewer uses the word "dire" twice in one review doesn't bode well for Filth and Wisdom's future as anything but a novelty.