By
Margaret Hartmann,
senior editor for Intelligencer who has worked at New York since 2012
Melania Trump is notoriously private, to the point that she often disappears from public view for weeks at a time. Yet this year the First Lady released an Amazon-financed documentary that provides a “behind-the-scenes” look at her life in the days leading up to Donald Trump’s second inauguration. And it was directed by Brett Ratner, who was “canceled” following allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct in 2017.
So what’s going on here? Why did Melania disrupting her Carmen Sandiego–esque lifestyle? Where can you watch the Melania movie? What do the reviews say? Who thought enabling a Ratner comeback attempt was a good idea? And where does Jeff Bezos come in? Here’s everything we know about the First Lady’s foray into film.
