Melania-Rezension – Trump-Film ist ein vergoldetes Trash-Remake von The Zone of Interest
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest?referring_host=Reddit&utm_campaign=guardianacct
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Hi r/entertainment, this is Jake from The Guardian’s audience team. We wanted to share our review of the new Melania Trump documentary from writer Xan Brooks.
*From his story:*
My audience with [Melania](https://www.theguardian.com/film/melania) is booked for Friday lunchtime at a retail park on the outskirts of Bristol, inside a large cinema which appears to have been swept and emptied in readiness. When Brett Ratner’s contentious, Amazon-backed documentary previewed at the White House last weekend, the guestlist included Mike Tyson, Queen Rania of Jordan and the president himself. Today it’s just me in the room and Melania on the screen. It makes for a more intimate and exclusive affair.
This mood of cosy conviviality extends all the way through the opening credits; at which point the chill descends and the novocaine kicks in, as the film’s star and executive producer proceeds to guide us – with agonising glacial slowness – through the preparations for her husband’s second presidential inauguration. She glides from the fashion fitting to the table setting, and from the “candlelit dinner” to the “starlight ball”, with a face like a fist and a voice of sheet metal. “Candlelight and black tie and my creative vision,” she says, as though listing the ingredients in a cauldron. “As first lady, children will always remain my priority,” she coos, and you can almost picture her coaxing them into her little gingerbread house.
No doubt there is a great documentary to be made about Melania Knauss, the ambitious model from out of Slovenia who married a New York real-estate mogul and then found herself cast in the role of a latter-day Eva Braun, but the horrific Melania emphatically isn’t it.
It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne.
[*You can read the full review for free here.*](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/melania-review-trump-film-is-a-gilded-trash-remake-of-the-zone-of-interest?referring_host=Reddit&utm_campaign=guardianacct)
>“Candlelight and black tie and my creative vision,” she says, as though listing the ingredients in a cauldron. “As first lady, children will always remain my priority,” she coos, and you can almost picture her coaxing them into her little gingerbread house.
My 9 year old happened to walk into the room the other day when the Melania trailer came on. When it was done she looked at me, confused, and asked, „Is she a witch?“
Absolute (No one in) Cinema
Breaking News: Hookers have a short shelf life.
Seriously, would you shell out money to see a documentary about any first lady? Naw, this one? Hell naw. If ICE is rounding up immigrants based on their accents, pick this one up.
„No doubt there is a great documentary to be made about Melania Knauss, the ambitious model from out of Slovenia who married a New York real-estate mogul and then found herself cast in the role of a latter-day Eva Braun“
Savage
>…Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest.
I laughed out loud! Take my enthusiastic upvote!
If I’d wanted to watch a movie about a prostitute, I would’ve gone to see „Pretty Woman“ with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.
I’d rather see the Stormy Daniels story. Way way more interesting. And Stormy can put 4 words together to make a sentence.
Well, I just know that it’s absolute total pure trash. And everyone throughout the US and around the world just simply agrees. We’re good with seeing WAAAAAAY much more better documentaries about certain celebrities either through our local theaters OR just one of our own favorite streaming services like Peacock and Netflix.
Who’s gonna tell her…. Maybe if she cast Stormy Daniels or Ivanka…
It’s like Anora but the Russian asset she is boning became President.
I feel sorry for the person who had to watch it so they could critique it.😢
Doing absolutely nothing of substance, being the definition of unremarkable, and getting all this attention. What a weird time to be alive.
It is a movie about rich entitled scumbags! Nothing more, nothing less.
We have enough movies about hookers who hit it rich.
Grift. Grift. Grift.
I don’t care, do you?
This I will not believe! America’s First Lady is a dignified scholar who arrived in America thanks to the Einstein Act and deserves to be celebrated for her contributions to science and the betterment of mankind.
Heck, her whole platform spells it out: “Be Best”. What a thoughtful and elegant phrase to demonstrate her commitment to higher education and her commitment to the ways of Kant.
Did they really think maga power was going to get this trash to succeed?
Trump wants her to have a star immediately on Hollywood walkway. Can you image the shitstorm the Academy Awards are going to be next year, another Nobel Peace prize joke fest
Just include the time about when she was a nude model?
I don’t care. Do U?
„an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne“
According to my friend who saw it for shit and giggles politics aside it’s a boring ass film nothing interesting he says
This sounds like a reality show episode without the drama.
“As first lady, children will always remain my priority,”
um. interesting line to have in there Melania..
‚…ambitious model from out of Slovenia who married a New York real-estate mogul and then found herself cast in the role of a latter-day Eva Braun‘ 💀
„two hours of Melania feels like pure, endless hell.“ Brilliant review. 😀
From hooker to high society this vapid empty vanity project who’s only purpose is to stroke the ego of a crazed dictator is just propaganda wrapped in a dirty diaper
How deluded and out of touch must Melania be that she even thought for a second this wasn’t going to bomb? She’s never done a single meaningful thing in her life and given all the evidence to date looks like a self-centered „me me me me me“ POS human being
Why haven’t I heard the term “Lickspittles” before this? I love it!
„designer taxidermy“
Article title deserves an award, brutal
Yep, isn’t the classic quote, „If you showed this on a flight, people would still get up and walk out.“
Cleverly released in January to avoid 2025 Razzies eligibility. I’m on to your scheme!
Wait, this movie actually exists?
‚“Being awake for 22-hours felt like nothing,” she gushes, which is nice to hear and good for her. ‚
lmao
Don’t show this on a plane, people will try to walk out.
The documentary on the schemes that lead to this getting made would definitely be more interesting. A Tart of Darkness, of you will
The Grand Couvert: At Versailles, the court of Louis XIV, the King and Queen would dine in public for 45 minutes several times a week. Commoners were allowed to watch the King and Queen eat from behind a low partition. The film Melania is a 21st century U.S. version of the Grand Couvert.
If their target audience was Trump supporters who don’t hate women, I think they seriously overestimated the size of that audience.
“Melania is out now” feels like a threat
This is the best review I’ve ever read. It’s hilarious.
The trailer was weird. It ends with Melania on the phone with Donald. She says „Congratulations!“.
He asks her „Did you watch it?“.
She says „I did not. It was here on the news.“
Paints a very disengaged picture of the first lady. Why would they end it like that? I was not expecting any honesty!
One review said that if the movie was shown on a plane, that people would still walk out.
I was excited for this Movie-for the reviews…..And I have NOT been disappointed. This review is the best of them all, so well written!
Try reading the Amazon prime reviews. MAGA is review bombing it last I checked
That’s quite the headline. I’m here for it though.
Even Greg Abbott got up and walked out on that trash