“There’s an undeniably funky charm and abiding can-do spirit to this loose-knit portrait of three London flatmates trying to make their way in the world. … Eugene Hutz (has) enormous charisma.” -Scott Foundas, Village Voice
“[Madonna’s] sexy … directorial debut samples post feminist soft porn and shock-art provocation to cast an excitingly icy spell. … More tightly styled than a Wes Anderson film, it’s magnetizing.”-Troy Patterson, Spin Magazine
Madonna makes a bold and uncompromising move behind the camera in her first film as writer-director, FILTH AND WISDOM, a one-of-a-kind look at something close to her heart: the undeniable artistic impulse.
The genre-defying film – a rowdy, romantic, kinky, comic rock drama, starring the equally unique Eugene Hutz of the acclaimed Gypsy punk group Gogol Bordello – bursts onto DVD September 29, 2009, via IFC Films and MPI Media Group. The disc has an SRP of $19.98.
Madonna and co-scripter Dan Cadan set their story in a London flat where three disparate – and increasingly desperate — roommates struggle to make ends meet while also trying to achieve their dreams. A.K. (Hutz) is a Ukrainian immigrant rocker who finances his goal of gaining “trans-continental superstardom” by turning tricks as a role-playing cross-dresser.
Holly (Holly Weston, “Splintered”) is an aspiring ballerina (and object of A.K.’s unspoken love) who works as a pole-climbing stripper while she waits for her big break. Kleptomaniac Juliette (Vicky McClure, “A Room for Romeo Brass”) steals medicine from her pharmaceutical job with the intention of aiding suffering Africans. Living upstairs from this odd trio is a blind professor (Richard E. Grant, “Withnail & I,” “The Age of Innocence”) who dispenses the wisdom that helps them get past all the filth with their dignity intact.
FILTH AND WISDOM
Street date: September 29, 2009
Prebook: August 24, 2009
SRP: $19.98
Running time: 81 minutes
Not Rated
1.85 Letterbox; Dolby SR sound
DVD Extras: Theatrical trailer
UPC: 030306950297
Catalogue: IFC9502
ISBN: 0788600909
