14 years after TRUTH OR DARE, Madonna repeated the process for I'M GOING TO TELL YOU A SECRET, this time filmed during the 2004 Re-Invention tour and, intentionally or not, there are quite a few echoes from the previous film.
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In the ensuing twelve years Madonna had released five albums, toured twice, experienced the EROTICA controversy, won a Golden Globe for EVITA, and became a mother.
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Whereas in TRUTH OR DARE Warren Beatty edged out of the frame, here Guy Ritchie elbows his way in to interview fans, chill backstage, and sing Irish songs. Madonna usually is on hand to deflate his bragging. Indeed it is insightful to see her boredom celebrating his birthday in a Mayfair pub.
Again her father is featured midway through but her dancers are kept in the background this time.
But her Kabbalah-influenced visit to Israel at the end is depressingly thick-eared.
Shelf or charity shop? Of course it's a keeper - the Re-Invention tour was never released on dvd so the vibrant colour footage allows you to see again her magnificent versions of HOLIDAY, VOGUE, LAMENT, LIKE A PRAYER, NOBODY KNOWS ME, MOTHER AND FATHER and the HOLLYWOOD (REMIX) which showcases her excellent dancers. Madonna is also great to watch in the offstage footage especially when she squirms with embarrassment in having to swear when holding her father's hand and her scenes with Lourdes and Rocco are touching. She also seems to have a genuine rapport with Stuart Price which of course came to fruition in her next album CONFESSIONS ON A DANCE FLOOR. But the post-tour visit to Israel ends the film with a crashing thud. For all her talk of spiritulism and being humble etc. it all goes out the window when having been warned by her security team against visiting some ancient tombs, she goes anyway and of course causes a media scrum.
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