Madonna's Film-Event
Madonna's cinematic 'Confessions II: The Film' premieres, featuring celebrity cameos.
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Madonna previewed Confessions II as a short cinematic “film-event” at the Tribeca Film Festival’s Beacon Theatre on June 7, treating the project as a single continuous visual work tied to her upcoming album rather than a run of standalone music videos. Directed by David Toro and Solomon Chase of TORSO, Confessions II: The Film (about 13 minutes) draws on the first six album tracks and moves through nightlife, performance, cameras, and crowd dynamics, with surreal imagery including laser effects and multiple celebrity cameos such as Benedict Cumberbatch, Sabrina Carpenter, Debi Mazar, Kate Moss, Julia Garner, and Lourdes Leon. At the screening, phones were locked away in Yondr pouches for hours, and Madonna—describing herself as arriving fashionably late—joined a post-film Q&A moderated by Anderson Cooper after Jimmy Fallon was unavailable. The festival and press coverage also emphasized the project’s “control vs. surrender” tension and its chapter-like structure, alongside its connection to Madonna’s 2005 Confessions on a Dance Floor. Her rollout has been paired with public performances, including a Pride-focused Times Square appearance with Grindr, as the film moves beyond the festival audience. Confessions II: The Film is set to arrive on YouTube on June 8 at 11 a.m. ET, ahead of the album’s July 3 release.
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At the post-screening Q&A, Madonna explicitly insisted that “Confessions II” is a “film,” not a “music video,” saying: “Somehow, a video seems cheap… those days are over.”
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Madonna also weighed in on live-performance plans—while coy on touring, she joked she would “prefer to perform inside a plexiglass cube at a warehouse rave,” and she ruled out a residency at the Las Vegas Sphere: “I don’t wanna wake up every morning and see Vegas. I just don’t.”
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Tribeca told attendees to expect an “ambitious visual work exceeding 10 minutes,” and Rolling Stone reported the Yondr phone lockup lasted “up to two-and-a-half hours from when doors opened”; it also described a moment after the film ended when Lourdes Leon said, “Cut, bitch.”
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The festival materials highlighted specific tracks used in the film-event sequence—“I Feel So Free” and “Bring Your Love,” the latter featuring Sabrina Carpenter—framing the project as built around the first six album tracks.
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Beyond the film itself, the project is also being positioned as a comeback-album moment: one report says “Confessions II” will be Madonna’s first full-length studio release since 2019 and reunites her with producer Stuart Price, a key figure from the original “Confessions on a Dance Floor” era.
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