Whoever though Madonna directing a major motion picture was a brilliant idea needs to have their head examined. Oh wait. That would be Madge herself. The Kaballah inspired material girl released her directorial debut film "Filth and Wisdom" on October 17 but it's been a bomb at the box office.
She got the usual adoring reviews from critics who have been in love with Madonna during her entire career, but average theater goers could not have ignored this film more and film critics have dismissed it as a vanity project.
"Filth and Wisdom", which Madonna both wrote, produced, and directed, has sold just $18,000 in tickets in the three theaters on the planet where it is still bravely playing - in Toronto, St. Louis, and Columbus, Ohio. It isn't even playing in her home cities of New York and London.
Which is odd because she cast Gogol Bordello, an American Gypsy punk band from the NY underground scene, as British blokes living in London. Why was it necessary to portray them as being British? And why her constant obsession with all men being secretly gay and wanting to be a cross-dressing dominatrix?
