Madonna on 'own journey' in Berlin

February 14, 2008 The last time Madonna came to the Berlin International Film Festival she hid under a raincoat -- accompanying Sean Penn -- and nobody knew she was here. Reporters queued for an hour outside the press room, then waited another hour inside to catch a glimpse of the diminutive director and the documentary's stars, the Gypsy rocker Eugene Hutz and the British actresses Holly Weston and Vicky McClure. The Material Girl might have all the success in the world, but she can still feel the struggle of her early years as if it was yesterday or so she said Wednesday adding that she could therefore identify with the struggling characters in her quirky, colorful, sexual underground film.

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