Madonna was offered a position with the Cannes Film Festival jury, according to The Daily Mail, but turned it down because she was not prepared to miss her Kabbalah meetings. Festival chief Thierry Fremaux said: "We talked about her being on the jury, but her religion meant this could not happen. It is a regret because she has valuable knowledge. She would have to return to London every Saturday, or maybe it was every Friday, so for two days during our festival she would not be here and that could not work."
The singer was also planning to take a documentary about her last tour to the film festival but it wasn't ready in time. Mr Fremaux continued: "Madonna takes the cinema world seriously, she doesn't treat it in a superficial way. I saw three hours of film from the documentary in the form of rushes and some completed footage, but it wasn't ready."