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September 2, 2011, Friday
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POP star Madonna thanked her ex-husbands for encouraging her to take up a career in movies, as she arrived in Venice yesterday for the world premiere of her lavish royal drama "W.E."
The 53-year-old American has been married to US actor and director Sean Penn and British film maker Guy Ritchie, and has spent much of the last few years behind the camera rather than on the stage.
"W.E.," her second feature film, appears at the Venice film festival outside the main competition, but the presence of one of the world's biggest celebrities inevitably dominated the attention of the world's press.
The film tells the story of US divorcee Wallis Simpson, whose affair with Britain's King Edward VIII led him to abdicate, through the eyes of another American, Wally Winthrop, played by Abbie Cornish, who lives in New York in the 1990s and becomes obsessed with the life of a woman with whom she bears an uncanny resemblance.
Madonna said: "I am and was attracted to very creative people, which is why I married Sean Penn and Guy Ritchie, two very talented directors. They both encouraged me as a director and as a creative person to do what I did, and they were both very supportive."
There was applause for the movie after the first screening. The Daily Telegraph's David Gritten wrote: "Her version of their (the Windsors') lives is a fantasia that will not trouble historians. Yet oddly, that is a relief after so many stale, plodding TV documentaries about this unlovely couple."
The 53-year-old American has been married to US actor and director Sean Penn and British film maker Guy Ritchie, and has spent much of the last few years behind the camera rather than on the stage.
"W.E.," her second feature film, appears at the Venice film festival outside the main competition, but the presence of one of the world's biggest celebrities inevitably dominated the attention of the world's press.
The film tells the story of US divorcee Wallis Simpson, whose affair with Britain's King Edward VIII led him to abdicate, through the eyes of another American, Wally Winthrop, played by Abbie Cornish, who lives in New York in the 1990s and becomes obsessed with the life of a woman with whom she bears an uncanny resemblance.
Madonna said: "I am and was attracted to very creative people, which is why I married Sean Penn and Guy Ritchie, two very talented directors. They both encouraged me as a director and as a creative person to do what I did, and they were both very supportive."
There was applause for the movie after the first screening. The Daily Telegraph's David Gritten wrote: "Her version of their (the Windsors') lives is a fantasia that will not trouble historians. Yet oddly, that is a relief after so many stale, plodding TV documentaries about this unlovely couple."
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