Independent Lens Season 6 Episode 22 Imelda
- May 10, 2005
'Imelda,' a snarky profile of the widow of former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos told mostly by Marcos herself. The personality that emerges is charming but awesomely egotistical, perhaps self-deluded. And certainly well shod. Snide clips (George Hamilton crooning, 'I can't give you anything but love, Imelda,' for example) alternate with a sober review of the Marcos regime, which was toppled in 1986. And 'when they went through my closets they found shoes,' Imelda says, 'not skeletons.'
