Strike a Pose, on the Croisette.
Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 9:00PM 
Jose here. If The King's Speech hasn't given you enough of socialite Wallis Simpson to last you for a while -- I personally thought Eve Best's performance was the best thing in the movie and she should be getting the praise HBC is getting. But that's a whole other matter. Back to our post -- all you have to do is remember that our beloved Madonna is making an entire movie about her.
The shooting has remained pretty secretive and other than a few pictures the paparazzi have snagged (like rising star Andre Riseborough as Simpson to your left), we don't really know what the thing's looking like.
Maybe we won't have to wait much longer. Madonna has decided she wants her film to be part of the Cannes Film Festival just a few months away. French newspaper Le Parisien is reporting that the pop icon plans to have her film included in the festival's official selection.
This won't be official until festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux announces the official selection in April, so will the Queen of Pop be able to have her way this time?
The first official screening will take place next month when Madonna presents her second feature film to private distributors in Berlin.
Madge is no newbie to the Cannes Film Festival, just a few years back she presented her documentary I Am Because We Are, which didn't seem to make a huge impression but wasn't trashed either. She had more luck with the smash documentary Truth or Dare which made a huge international ruckus at Cannes in 1991.
Madonna at Cannes in 1991 and 2008
So we'll just have to wait and see how W.E. fares with the picky Cannes audience. Will New York icon and Jury President Robert de Niro feel swept away by this very American tale? Or will W.E. be too much Wallis, too soon?
Andrea Riseborough, Cannes, Madonna, Robert De Niro, Truth or Dare, W.E.
Reader Comments (5)
I find it so endearing how invested you are in this movie before it arrives :) I want it to be great, too.
Mostly I always want Mad to triumph.
I'm really curious to see how this film turns out. While the script was horrible, I thought that she did a decent job directing "Filth and Wisdom". Also, she has a great cast and crew for "W.E". Guess we'll have to wait and see. People seem to forget what a visual artist Madonna is. What always happens is is that her reputation (especially regarding her film career) precedes her.
It's true, her reputation as a bad actress precedes her, but we must say that it's something quite exagerated by the media (and by her many haters)
maybe we won't see W.E. enjoying a triumph à la KING'S SPEECH, but we hope it will be respected, expecially if it's good
Hmmm ... I actually thought the parts with Eve Best and Guy Pearce were the weakest parts of the movie. I didn't think it was the actors' fault as much as it was the sort of too obvious attempts to vilify them.
I agree, I thought every time Eve Best on screen, it was fantastic. I would've loved a movie with just her and Guy Pearce. They were perfect!