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Mel has found this:
Madonna's directorial debut. A playful, sexy and music-heavy tale of three London roommates who delve into naughty behaviour in pursuit of bigger and brighter futures. A Ukrainian immigrant, A.K. (Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz, playing a version of himself), finances his dreams of "transcontinental superstardom" by turning tricks as a role-playing cross dresser. As A.K. literally whips the privileged of London into shape, he also secretly pines for Holly (Holly Weston), an aspiring ballerina looking for her big break while moonlighting as a stripper.
As already proved by the execrable Everything Is Illuminated, the endearingly accented Hutz has marvellous screen presence. When he's not narrating the film and addressing the camera, he carries the show, masking the faults of his somewhat less talented co-stars. Madonna is working from a merely decent screenplay that throws in occasionally unneeded philosophical ruminations and off-tune moments of gravitas (many provided by Richard E. Grant as A.K.'s blind neighbour), but so what? Though she acknowledges a debt to Godard and Pasolini, Madonna knows not to take things too seriously--the subplot involving a pharmacist who harbours dreams of helping Africa's starving youth is clearly self-parody. Her lively take on the London comedy proves, without a doubt, that she is a better director than both her husband and Mike Leigh."
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