The former first lady of the Philippines is revealed as a monstrous, loathsome, absurdly queenly figure in Lauren Greenfield’s superb documentary
Lauren Greenfield’s film about the Philippines’ former first lady Imelda Marcos reveals a grotesquely self-pitying, wholly unrepentant and very rich woman, who has clearly still kept her hands on a great deal of the American aid money that successive Us presidents once gave the Philippines in return for suppressing communism and civil rights and showing hospitality to Us naval power – cash that she and her husband, Ferdinand, looted from the public purse and salted away abroad.
Related: 'She's an unreliable narrator': Lauren Greenfield on her Imelda Marcos documentary...
Lauren Greenfield’s film about the Philippines’ former first lady Imelda Marcos reveals a grotesquely self-pitying, wholly unrepentant and very rich woman, who has clearly still kept her hands on a great deal of the American aid money that successive Us presidents once gave the Philippines in return for suppressing communism and civil rights and showing hospitality to Us naval power – cash that she and her husband, Ferdinand, looted from the public purse and salted away abroad.
Related: 'She's an unreliable narrator': Lauren Greenfield on her Imelda Marcos documentary...
- 12/12/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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