Pop go the dialectics in Filth and Wisdom, a tale of bumping and grinding your way to happiness from the hardest-working hard body in show business.
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10/17/08
Filth and Wisdom (2008)
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Reviews Counted:54
Fresh:15
Rotten:39
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: Filth and Wisdom, while certainly ambitious, is mostly unconvincing and incoherent.
Theatrical Release:Oct 17, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Madonna's directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom, is a hilariously sexy tale of three roommates who must delve into mischievous and naughty behavior in pursuit of bigger and brighter futures. A... [More]
Starring: Eugene Hutz, Holly Weston, Vicky McClure, Richard E. Grant
Director: Madonna
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Reviews for Filth and Wisdom
Bad, but not in any way that's uncommon for an indie film about struggling artists in the big city.
10/16/08
[The film's] finest attribute is its scraggly, empathetic portrait of close-knit Londoners trying to make a go of things in haphazard, messy, always true-to-themselves ways.
10/15/08
An otherwise tired vanity project.
10/15/08
The movie is short on wisdom, but it might have gotten by if it had had better filth.
10/15/08
Top CriticFilth and Wisdom feels like the kind of airless, desperately chic movie written by and for young people living on their own for the first time.
10/15/08
In technical terms, more professional productions than this are filmed and cut on iMovie, by ten-year-olds, a thousand times a day.
10/13/08
Madonna's feature directorial debut Filth and Wisdom seems of a piece with her previous work, in that it's in some way about Madonna herself hiding behind borrowed aesthetics.
10/13/08
Madonna's got her Godard down!
10/12/08
Scraggly and aimless, a little cartoonish but highly personable.
10/11/08
The Material Girl goes behind the camera. With not bad results.
10/08/08
Fans of Eugene Holtz may get a brief charge from his Ukrainian-inflected irony that saturates every word he utters, but all others should beware of giving this sloppy film the time of day.
08/30/08
A grungy ensemble piece that casts a fascinating spell despite its many shortcomings, Madonna's directorial debut Filth and Wisdom is equal parts naughty and nice (or filthy and wise, as the title would have it).
03/01/08
Ineptly written and helmed story of three Londoners, although quite bad, does have a few redeeming features.
02/15/08
Ragged, uneven and potholed with some dire dialogue and performances, the film's cockeyed optimism and likable leads conspire to bring a smile by the time it's done.
02/13/08
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