Madonna Does Berlin – and Berlin Likes It

Madonna premiered her directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom, at the Berlin Film Festival today, and the first review has been kind.

The Times gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, and suggests it’s a good starting point for the Queen of Pop’s career as a director.

“Despite its many shortcomings and an ending so mushy and neat it would embarrass Richard Curtis,” the paper says, “Madonna has done herself proud.

“Her film has an artistic ambition [duh!] that has simply bypassed her husband, the film director Guy Ritchie. She captures that wonderfully accidental nature of luck when people’s lives intersect for a whole swathe of unlikely but cherishable reasons.

“Altmanesque would be stretching the compliment too far, but Filth and Wisdom shows Madonna has real potential as a film director.”

I can’t wait to see it. Can you? (Don’t you lie now.)

Photo: People.com.

Update: For every kind review, there must be a harsh one: The Guardian has given 1 star to the 81-minute movie.

“Madonna has been a terrible actor in many, many films and now,” the paper says, “fiercely aspirational as ever, she has graduated to being a terrible director.”

Ouch.

Frak it...I still want to see it.