DVD: The True, The Good & The Beautiful
Watched this movie with friends last June 12, Indpendence Day. The documentary's wit has not lost its touch. I was able to watch this film a few years ago and loved it then.
Initially, Imelda opposed the film's showing in the Philippines. She was succesful in getting a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) from a local court. In the end she allowed the showing of the film on the condition the director dropped the word "Documentary".
Diaz directed this documentary film about Imelda and she does by mixing the actual interviews of Imelda with images, stock footage and recently shot films, taken from the Marcos Period to what was at that time the present. She then spices the film with interviews both friendly and critical to Mrs Marcos. The result is a well-balanced and often time funny portrayal of Imelda.
It was a movie about Imelda using Imelda and her words. Diaz serves up the former First Lady and Iron Butterfly as a complex and comic figure. Most of the time her own words and mannerisms condemns here to her fate as an eccentric old lady who once ruled the whole archipelago.
The film follows Imelda's rise and fall and eventual resurrection in Philippine politics. Images left burning in my mind was the fate of Ferdinand Marcos as he lay dying in exile in Hawaii away from his country. Was it a just reward? Perhaps it was, but you cannot but feel pity. And glancing at our present fix I just cannot get over the feeling or hunch that would it have been better if people power had not happened. But that is pointless now and conjecture on that is as effective as cupping a corpse.
Indeed the film went "beyond the shoes" in bringing the tale of Imelda Romualdez Marcos.
What we watched was the original DVD and unforunately it was a bare-thread version. no extra feautures save for the trailers of other movies. I just checked out the CineFilipino site, the company producing and marketing the DVD, and it would seem they came out with a special edition complete with the commentary and deleted scenes. I could just hear my jaw drop.
Check out the CineFilipino site, a few DVDs there are worth buying. As for me I am waiting for Tagalog classics they will be releasing.
Imelda - Power. Myth. Illusion.
Cast: Imelda Marcos
Directed by: Ramona S. Diaz
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Subtitle(s): English
Initially, Imelda opposed the film's showing in the Philippines. She was succesful in getting a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) from a local court. In the end she allowed the showing of the film on the condition the director dropped the word "Documentary".
Diaz directed this documentary film about Imelda and she does by mixing the actual interviews of Imelda with images, stock footage and recently shot films, taken from the Marcos Period to what was at that time the present. She then spices the film with interviews both friendly and critical to Mrs Marcos. The result is a well-balanced and often time funny portrayal of Imelda.
It was a movie about Imelda using Imelda and her words. Diaz serves up the former First Lady and Iron Butterfly as a complex and comic figure. Most of the time her own words and mannerisms condemns here to her fate as an eccentric old lady who once ruled the whole archipelago.
The film follows Imelda's rise and fall and eventual resurrection in Philippine politics. Images left burning in my mind was the fate of Ferdinand Marcos as he lay dying in exile in Hawaii away from his country. Was it a just reward? Perhaps it was, but you cannot but feel pity. And glancing at our present fix I just cannot get over the feeling or hunch that would it have been better if people power had not happened. But that is pointless now and conjecture on that is as effective as cupping a corpse.
Indeed the film went "beyond the shoes" in bringing the tale of Imelda Romualdez Marcos.
What we watched was the original DVD and unforunately it was a bare-thread version. no extra feautures save for the trailers of other movies. I just checked out the CineFilipino site, the company producing and marketing the DVD, and it would seem they came out with a special edition complete with the commentary and deleted scenes. I could just hear my jaw drop.
Check out the CineFilipino site, a few DVDs there are worth buying. As for me I am waiting for Tagalog classics they will be releasing.
Imelda - Power. Myth. Illusion.
Cast: Imelda Marcos
Directed by: Ramona S. Diaz
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Subtitle(s): English
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