“Dear Dieter, can I bring my film to Berlin? Thanks, Madonna.”
Perhaps this wasn’t the actual wording of the postcard the Queen of Pop sent to Berlin Film Festival director Dieter Kosslick, but the request was the same.
Accordingly, Madonna’s directorial film debut, Filth and Wisdom, will have its premiere at the festival.
Kosslick has been telling reporters he was “really impressed” by the pop star’s forthright request.
“I’ve never before received a card from someone who said: ‘Dear Dieter, if you like my film, I’d love it to be screened in Berlin’,” he said.
He replied in the affirmative at once, perhaps thinking of the publicity rather than her previous film outings - such as the critically-derided Swept Away, which she made with film-maker husband Guy Ritchie.
But in Filth and Wisdom the music star says behind the camera.
While critics are sharpening their pencils, the buzz about her 81-minute film has so far been favourable.
Source: BBC News