I'm Going to Tell You a Secret (2005) on Netflix
NR20052h 8mDocumentaryMusic
A documentary follows a pop singer through her 2004 Re-Invention World Tour. Auditions, rehearsals and shows take her across North America and Europe with her dancers and her family.
- Netflix3.9/5
- IMDb7.7/102,296 votes
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Plot summary
The film opens with an art installation in which the singer appears seated beside a coyote as a queen, then moves into vocal sessions with her music director and auditions for the Re-Invention World Tour, the tour built around her album American Life. After the opening show at The Forum in Inglewood, California, she celebrates with her dancers. Rehearsals continue as the tour reaches New York City, where she asks the dancers to register to vote in the coming elections, and she speaks about her daily life, her family and her faith. In Chicago, her father speaks about her childhood from his vineyard and comes to see her perform, and in Miami her husband goes fishing with their son while she reflects on their marriage.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about I'm Going to Tell You a Secret (2005)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Madonna invited a group of friends and co-workers to watch a rough three-hour cut of her documentary at a Notting Hill theater, and after their feedback that it held too much Kabbalah she pruned those segments considerably.
- Madonna flew to Stockholm to edit, cutting 350 hours of footage down to a two-hour documentary, work she juggled with recording her tenth studio album, Confessions on a Dance Floor.
- Ultra-orthodox Jews protested Madonna's Israel trip for the documentary, saying she disgraced Judaism by wearing phylacteries, a custom reserved for men, in her 2002 "Die Another Day" video; she visited Rachel's Tomb despite Israeli security advising against the trip.
