Madonna – Confessions II – The Film

Twenty-one years after the album that resurrected her on the dance floor, Madonna premiered its sequel not as a single but as a ten-minute film at Tribeca — with Kate Moss, Benedict Cumberbatch and a cast of stars playing themselves.

Madonna has never been content to simply release a record. For the return to the sound that gave her one of her greatest late-career triumphs, she made a film instead. Confessions II – The Film arrived on her official YouTube channel on June 8, 2026 — a continuous cinematic piece running past ten minutes, built around the first six tracks of her forthcoming fifteenth studio album, Confessions II, due July 3 on Warner Records.

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The album is a deliberate sequel. Confessions on a Dance Floor, released in 2005, reunited Madonna with producer Stuart Price and produced a run of dance-pop that reestablished her commercial dominance at a moment when many had written her off. Two decades later she has reunited with Price once again — he handles music direction here — to revisit that same territory: house, disco, electronic dance music built for the floor. The lead single, Bring Your Love, a collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter, arrived in April, followed by promotional tracks as the rollout built toward the album.

Rather than a conventional music video for any one of those songs, Madonna commissioned a single immersive film to give the music a physical form.

A fever dream stitched together from six songs

Directed by David Toro and Solomon Chase — the duo known as TORSO — and produced by DIVISION, the film unfolds as one continuous piece weaving the album’s opening songs into interconnected, music-driven sequences. The concept reaches back to Madonna’s own beginnings, drawing on her youth at Danceteria, the seminal early-1980s New York club where she first found her audience. Across its chapters the film moves from bedroom to club to car to arena and into nature, chasing the many spaces where music lives, and circling always back to the dance floor. Dolce & Gabbana powered the shoot and dressed all 250 extras. The cast is a roll call of famous faces appearing as themselves — Kate Moss, Benedict Cumberbatch, Julia Garner, Richard E. Grant, Gwendoline Christie, Sabrina Carpenter, and Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon among them.

The film had its world premiere on June 5, 2026, at the Beacon Theatre in New York as part of the Tribeca Film Festival, where Madonna joined her directors for a conversation hosted by Jimmy Fallon before the work went out to the world three days later. At 67, more than four decades into her career, Madonna is once again betting that the most interesting way to release pop music is to refuse to release it the ordinary way. Confessions II – The Film is the opening statement of that bet — a ten-minute argument that the dance floor, for her, was never just about the songs.