Film review: Filth And Wisdom

Director: Madonna Cast: Eugene Hutz, Holly Weston, Vicky McClure Rated: Not Rated 84 minutes Film festivals serve a vital function in giving unknown, unheralded, and/or undistributed movies a platform to get support from critics and find an audience. But through the vetting process, they also serve an equally vital function: They generally help keep abysmal work like Madonna's directorial debut, Filth And Wisdom, from seeing the light of day. Given the Madonna name, of course, there was no doubt—or at least, less doubt—that there would be some interest, however limited, in her stupefying cinematic vision. With any other name behind it, her pseudo-philosophical ode to Kabbalah teachings would get cast into the enormous slushpile of festival rejects that only a few intrepid selection-committee members have been forced to sit... [read full story]