A Taste Of Madonna’s W.E.

On Sept. 1st, W.E. premiered out of competition at the 68th Venice Film Festival with the film’s stars and director, Madonna, in attendance. The “Material Girl” hit the red carpet before greeting a flurry of photographers and reporters at the press conference.

Unfortunately, the film’s reception wasn’t as enthusiastic. In his review of Madonna’s film, Guy Lodge from In Contention called it “irredeemably silly, self-admiring ode to life, love and all the fabulous bed linens in between.” With that in mind, check out this clip of W.E.

Synopsis:

W.E. tells the story of two fragile but determined women – Wally Winthrop and Wallis Simpson – separated by more than six decades. In 1998, lonely New Yorker Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) is obsessed with what she perceives as the ultimate love story: King Edward’s VIII’s abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorcée Wallis Simpson. But Wally’s research, including several visits to the Sotheby’s auction of the Windsor Estate, reveals that the couple’s life together was not as perfect as she thought. Weaving back and forth in time, W.E. intertwines Wally’s journey of discovery in New York with the story of Wallis (Andrea Riseborough) and Edward (James D’Arcy), from the glamorous early days of their romance to the slow unraveling of their lives in the decades that followed.

The Weinstein Company will release W.E. on December 9, 2011.