Our Low Expectations

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Madonna's directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom, about which we were healthily skeptical, is not being panned by every single critic who sees it. (Wha?) In fact, The Times of London reviewer who previewed Filth at the Berlin Film Festival gave it three stars out of five. But what a bad good review:

• "Filth and Wisdom…stars Eugene Hutz as a Ukrainian gypsy with an intensely annoying habit of looking the camera in the eye and spouting gobbets of wisdom that have as much relevance to real life as Chinese fortune cookies."

• "Madonna puts a little too much faith in her writing powers…"

• "…there is some clunkingly awful acting and a string of scenes that are so stagey they would fall over if they weren’t propped up by the cinema screen."

Oof. And yet the last paragraph begins thusly: "…despite its many shortcomings and an ending so mushy and neat it would embarrass Richard Curtis, Madonna has done herself proud."

Talk about neat endings!

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Feb 14, 2008 · posted by Cord Jefferson, MollyGood · Link · 6 Responses
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  • Comments (6)

    No. 1 gayledi says:

    Wow, facelift?

    Posted: Feb 14, 2008 at 11:07 am
    No. 2 jeff says: Posted: Feb 14, 2008 at 11:34 am
    No. 3 Alex says:

    she would have been out of commision for months had she had a face lift. She does looks fresh though.. i am guessing a few shots from mr. botox

    Posted: Feb 14, 2008 at 11:53 am
    No. 4 dang says:

    she's got a hot ass too.

    Posted: Feb 14, 2008 at 2:36 pm
    No. 5 joe to hell says:

    THANK YOU alex! i have been saying that - she couldnt get away with it - she is phtographed too often. shots and fillers for sure…. not major surgery.

    as for the film, i think she may actually prove genius at directing….i do.

    http://joetohell.blogspot.com

    Posted: Feb 14, 2008 at 2:46 pm
    No. 6 JAY says:

    I totally agree with Joe to Hell

    Madonna was in New York on December 2007 to promote Guy Ritchie's Revolver. She was photographed heavily in her lovely Dolce & Gabbana dress. She was photographed and filmed in India while vacationing with family in January 2008. She was going out in London few times in January as well, she was always photographed. She had the Gucci party on February 6th, we still did not get enough of it! And On February 13th, she is out in front of cameras again.

    She always looks flawless. Of course fillers and shots, my friends at age 34 are getting their regular botox shots. Just look at Madonna when she was 34 (1992), you will see the crack in the eyebrows, and lines on the forehead. Watch Evita from 1996, you will see the crack again. Then it all disappears with ray of light as of 1998!

    Flawless..
    Amazing

    Posted: Feb 15, 2008 at 3:07 am
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