Imelda
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Sundance FF, USA (2004) – Winner: Excellence in Cinematography Award (Documentary)
A wonderfully well-balanced and quietly chilling account of the infamous Filipino dictator’s wife, and renowned shoe-fetishist, Imelda Marcos, that tiptoes along the fine line between the eulogy that Imelda imagined the filmmakers were making, and concise insights into a brutal 21 year reign of corruption (1965-86) that she refuses to acknowledge.
Beautifully coifed, we listen to the bizarre, but ultimately deluded existential philosophies Imelda uses to exclude herself from the excesses of her husband’s regime, despite her laughing portrayal of the very real power she held. Visiting the various palaces of her previous life, we follow Imelda on a political campaign around the Philippines.
Precise editing wittily intersperses archive footage and interviews—with friends and “foes” alike—to interrupt the narrative of a life lived by a self-created personality-cult: Imelda.
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