Madonna and Lady Diana: two women, two stars and two destinies. Vice and Virtue. The Princess of the Dance-floor and the Queen of Hearts. Media fairytale heroines, Madonna and Lady Diana incarnate the fantasies and mythologies of the 1980s. They played an enigmatic role that sat in between the avant-garde and the traditional, the moral and the subversive. Pop Queens reunites this unusual pair in the context of a decade which symbolised a paradoxical modernity, at once enthused with hope but also filled with disenchantment. These two flamboyant media loving personalities of the 80’s blurred conventional boundaries, broke social codes and became the majestic symbols of a troubled existence. Behind the media slur is the story of two young, almost ordinary women who simultaneously became global icons during a decade that was bloodthirsty for celebrity. These two glamorous personalities eventually became the emblems the 80’s and in doing so have come to represent the cultural symptoms of a decade.
- Director :
Emmanuelle Nobécourt
- Author :
Didier Varrod
- Distributor :
Arte
- Year :
2009
- Runtime :
60'
- Release date :
08/25/2009
Pop Queens
