At its most acridly useful when comparing the former first lady's recollections with others' less sanguine memories.
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08/06/04
Imelda (2004)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:32
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Synopsis: The infamous widow of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos stars in her own documentary, blithely shrugging off criminal allegations and defending her ostentatious spending habits as "giving the... [More]
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Reviews for Imelda
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.
08/06/04
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08/07/04
The sole conclusion you can make at the end of Diaz's repetitive film is that Madam Marcos is as mad as a hatter.
06/18/04
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.
06/10/04
She emerges as an energetic, narcissistic, and totally self-deluded woman.
06/17/04
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.
06/11/04
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.
06/18/04
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12/04/04
Fabulously workmanlike.
06/03/04
As glossy as its subject's heavily lacquered trademark coiffure.
08/08/04
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12/06/05
Eminently successful at portraying the former first lady's flaws because it allows her to describe them herself.
02/01/04
does history a great service
09/04/05
By turns humorous, insightful and infuriating.
01/28/04
A frequently funny documentary, it is a mesmerizing and encyclopedic look at a weird but likeable historical figure.
03/13/04
Both enlightening and entertaining.
10/01/04
Where with another person you'd want to stop and argue with the patently fictitious assertions, there is something mesmerizing about Imelda's complete conviction
06/06/04
Diaz's portrait of Imelda Marcos attempts to get beyond the shoe thing, into the gothic heart of 40 years of Philippine politics.
08/19/04
If the shoe fits, go for it, Cinderella might advise. But how about 3,000 pairs of them.
05/30/07
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