"Raised in the 1970s, in what was then Yugoslavia, she grew up in a state-run housing complex in present-day Slovenia. A teenage modelling contract saw her whisked around Europe and then, in the Nineties, to the United States, where she eventually met the unassuming, mild-mannered property tycoon, Donald Trump. It is a journey that bridges Europe and America, an aspirational story of a little girl with nothing but a perfect jawline, the sort of tale that draws the eye of Hollywood."
"The documentary - with a runtime of 104 minutes - covers everything from the design of place settings and the width of hat ribbons to her excitement for her son Barron's hypothetical "beautiful family" and sadness at the 2024 death of her mother. "Not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother," she laments in the film's signature voiceover, while the camera holds a shot of the coffin of President Carter."
Melania Trump was born Melanija Knavs and grew up in a state-run housing complex in what is now Slovenia. A teenage modelling contract took her around Europe and to the United States in the Nineties, where she met Donald Trump. The film focuses on the 20 days leading up to the second Trump inauguration in January 2025, detailing place settings, hat ribbons, and family aspirations. The documentary highlights her grief over her mother's 2024 death and uses voiceover lines and images, including a coffin shot, to frame American history through her complex public persona.
Read at The Independent
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]