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Imelda
Directed by
Ramona S. Diaz
2003
1h 43m
Documentary
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A "beyond the shoes" documentary on the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos.
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Cast of Imelda
Imelda Marcos
Herself
Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.
Himself
Imee Marcos
Herself
Ramona S. Diaz
Director
Lois Vossen
Writer
Eric Martin
Writer
Imelda Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Mostly it's Marcos' mysterious sway over those who stood to lose the most from her power, coupled with her amazing inability to face that fact, that makes Imelda maddeningly fascinating.
L.A. Weekly
Jon Strickland
Diaz's portrait of Imelda Marcos attempts to get beyond the shoe thing, into the gothic heart of 40 years of Philippine politics.
Film Journal International
David Noh
As glossy as its subject's heavily lacquered trademark coiffure.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
At its most acridly useful when comparing the former first lady's recollections with others' less sanguine memories.
Boston Herald
Paul Sherman
Instead of enabling Marcos to tell the world how caring she is, the movie gives her enough rope to hang herself, and she does, again and again.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Even though Marcos, in this film, provides enough material for a few hundred giggles and head-shakings, she also shows a pathetically human side.
San Diego Metropolitan
Jean Lowerison
Although the fact that Imelda does most of the talking begins to feel like election year rhetoric or just plain propaganda, there's something perversely fascinating in listening to such sincere self-deception.
Boulder Weekly
Thomas Delapa
The sole conclusion you can make at the end of Diaz's repetitive film is that Madam Marcos is as mad as a hatter.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Robert Denerstein
In addition to being a shrewd character study, Diaz's sharply assembled film reminds us that charm can be as toxic as anything else when it comes to acquiring, holding and abusing power.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
She emerges as an energetic, narcissistic, and totally self-deluded woman.
TV Guide
Ken Fox
When she's not babbling about the weird symbological system that rules her personal cosmos Imelda is an entertaining storyteller, vividly describing a life that became a national embarrassment and a camp legend.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Fascinating and impressively balanced.
Newsday
John Anderson
While dismissing her point of view, it also takes her absolutely seriously -- her presentation of the 'facts' often makes her seem ridiculous, but at the same time beyond criticism.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
An open-eyed biography of a woman who ranks among the vainest in modern history, and who -- from the evidence she provides in numerous interviews -- could be a case study of self-delusion and denial.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
With the help of Marcos herself, the director gives us a picture of pride and power that might be called a vanity project if not for her gift at leavening Marcos' remembrances with more biting material.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
As a personality study Imelda is a devastating portrait of how power begets self-delusion.
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
When a filmmaker can get Imelda Marcos, once one of the 10 richest women in the world, to pull out a Sharpie and draw a Pac-Man, she's alright by me.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
'When they went to my closet they found shoes, not skeletons,' Mrs. M tells Diaz. Entertaining as it is, Imelda seems all too willing to take her at her word.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
With the qualification that the main perspective here is offered by Imelda herself, this workmanlike production does shed some interesting light on one of the more prominent female world figures of the last half of the past century.
The Hollywood Reporter
James Greenberg
By turns humorous, insightful and infuriating.
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