“Madonna’s Confessions II” Film Is Here And It’s A Sweaty, Star-Studded Night Out
Madonna has released Confessions II – The Film, a 13-minute short that plays like one long, half-remembered night on the dancefloor. It went up on YouTube on 8 June 2026, days after premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, where it reportedly earned several standing ovations.
The film runs across six chapters, each built around a new song from her coming album. We get I Feel So Free, Good for the Soul, One Step Away, Bring Your Love with Sabrina Carpenter, Danceteria, and Read My Lips, the last sung partly in Spanish with Colombian star Feid. Directed by the duo TORSO, it sits somewhere between a sexy thriller and a dance delusion, and it is very much NSFW.
A cast list that reads like a fashion-week afterparty
The cameos come thick and fast. Kate Moss, Benedict Cumberbatch, Gwendoline Christie, Richard E. Grant, Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon, and Julia Garner, who is set to play Madonna in her long-gestating biopic, all appear. For the dancefloor faithful, the bigger thrill is the queer talent running through it, including DJ Honey Dijon, Shygirl, and producer Arca.
Plenty for the Madonna obsessives
The Danceteria chapter is loaded with nods to her early-80s club days, including a recreation of the night she slipped her demo tape to a DJ at the real Danceteria. Debi Mazar, whom Madonna befriended at that very club decades ago, turns up too, and there’s a cheeky wink to her Deeper and Deeper video. Did you catch that one? “It’s about connection,” Madonna said of the film at Tribeca, according to Rolling Stone.
We covered her surprise Confessions II show in Times Square last Friday, and the film is the next beat in the same rollout. The album, her 15th and the sequel to 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor, drops on 3 July 2026. On this evidence, the dancefloor missed her, and so did we.
