A "beyond the shoes" documentary on the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos.A "beyond the shoes" documentary on the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos.A "beyond the shoes" documentary on the former first lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos.
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- TriviaInitially, Imelda Marcos opposed the public showing of this film in the Philippines and even got a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) from a local court stopping its public showing. Eventually, she allowed the showing of the film on the condition the director dropped the word "Documentary" from the film.
- SoundtracksHeaven Watch the Philippines
Written by Irving Berlin
Irivng Berlin Music Company
Performed by Imelda Marcos
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Alternately laugh out loud funny and stomach turning...
Superb documentary on the hugely entertaining (her loopy theory of the cosmos and galactic order alone is worth the price of admission), absolutely appalling, diamond and shoe collecting former First Lady of the desperately poor Philippines. Apparently, Marcos attempted to block the doc's release in her home country, and one can see why. However, as she gets to speak throughout, she wasn't able to claim her words were taken out of context or that she was slandered. Happily for film-goers, her efforts to suppress the film failed. Documentarian Ramona Diaz combines archival news footage and interviews with Marcos sycophants, relatives, former employees, supporters and political opponents to present a very balanced and revelatory portrait of this truly ghastly woman, the epitome of small-town ambition run amok. Indeeed, this could be a biography of dictators anywhere. Having lived several years in the former Zaire during the era of the megalomaniac bandit Mobuto Sese Seko, I felt a thrill of recognition while watching the antics of the Marcoses. A needlepoint cushion on a sofa in Marcos' Park Avenue penthouse, one of her several international real-estate holdings, sums her up: "Better Nouveau than not Riche at all". In a chilling coda that proves people get the government they deserve and do not seem to learn from the past, Marcos' son and daughter win municipal elections and appear to be launching little political careers of their own.
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- ilpintl
- Mar 2, 2005
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- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Color
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