Filth and Wisdom (2008)

Director:

Madonna

Writer:

Dan Cadan (writer)

Release Date:

17 October 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance

Plot:

A comedy centered on three flatmates living desperate lives in London. |

Plot Keywords:

Book Writer | Poetry | Lap Dancing | Dominatrix | Night Club

Cast

Ade	...	DJ
Gogol Bordello	...	Themselves (also archive footage)
Olegar Fedoro	...	A.K.'s Father
Stephen Graham	...	Harry Beechman
Richard E. Grant	...	Professor Flynn
Eugene Hutz	...	A.K.
Shobu Kapoor	...	Sardeep's Wife
George Keeler	...	Frail Man
Francesca Kingdon	...	Francine
Elliot Levey	...	Benjamin Goldfarb
Inder Manocha	...	Sardeep
Vicky McClure	...	Juliette
Tim Wallers	...	Mr. Frisk
Hannah Walters	...	Mrs. Goldfarb
Holly Weston	...	Holly
Clare Wilkie	...	Chloe

Runtime:

UK:81 min (PAL Version)

Country:

UK

Language:

English | Russian

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Company:

Semtex Films

Godawful, Trite and a waste of celluloid

Saw this at the Berlinale. All I can say is it's an insufferable mess. Dreadful acting and a script so full of crass banalities that it almost collapses under its own dreadfulness.

One to miss.

The Material One says she's thinking of releasing this on the internet - small wonder. I doubt there's a distributor anywhere that would touch this appalling car-crash of a movie. The music is quite fun, to be fair and there is a lot of it (probably because there's really not much else - perhaps she should think about directing a rockumentary next time). The dialogue is full of pretentious, meaningless attempts at 'insight'. Sadly, you'd get more insight looking at an unwashed pair of underpants.