Watch Madonna and Her W.E. Cast Make Their Movie Appear Pleasant in 24-Minute Doc

I'm clearly a thundering shill for Madonna whether she’s making terrible movies together with her ex-husband or making terrible movies with Griffin Dunne, but there’s something about W.E.’s self-serious, accidental telenovela that’s not really watchably bad. It’s just humorless and overlong — though Andrea Riseborough is fabulous because the polarizing Wallis Simpson. Inside a new 24-minute documentary about Madonna’s large feature, the director and her cast do their finest to market their watercolored biopic, and I say to you what? They perform a good job. Don’t request me to describe it. But James D’Arcy still appears like Anthony Perkins, so shut up and begin crying in adoration. Here’s what strikes me like a little misguided: 1) The ultimate importance placed upon the costuming and jewellery. W.E. feels as though a P Ales commercial with all of its slow-motion carat porn. 2) Wallis Simpson is definitely an interesting historic figure, but there’s no there there when it comes to a satisfying character arc. Madonna has always loved questionable women, but she’s ultimately too tame an iconoclast for this type of extended movie. Still, I search Madonna’s commentary here. It provides me with expect a good follow-up feature — though should you request me, she need her hands at pointing an exciting-female comic ensemble. If her acting past is any suggestion, that’s her surest wager for achievement. W.E. - Marketing Documentary [YouTube]