Madonna's movie savaged by critics

Madonna's directorial debut has been panned by critics following its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.

Filth and Wisdom, starring Richard E Grant, failed to impress audiences when it was shown in the avant-garde Panorama section.

Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw said the singer had graduated from being a "terrible actress" to a "terrible director".

He wrote: "She has made a movie so incredibly bad that Berlin festival-goers were staggering around in a state of clinical shock, deathly pale and mewing like maltreated kittens.

"Madonna has made a dumb and tacky comedy-drama about three people sharing a flat in a quaintly conceived 'London' and her conception of super-cool streetwise reality is so clueless it's as if Marie Antoinette had made a film about cake-munching peasants."

Meanwhile, the Daily Telegraph's Sheila Johnston said the popstar would "do well to hang on to her day job".

Madonna acted as director, co-writer and executive producer on the low-budget production.

Richard E. Grant previously revealed that he agreed to star in the movie because she had flirted with him.