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...Imelda Staunton gives a tight performance as the title character, a mid-century London mother who tests light bulbs in a factory and keeps house for the wealthy to provide for her children and aged mother. Somehow, she still finds the time to invite neighbors over to her apartment for tea and a matchmaking session. In her “spare” time, she performs simple abortions to “help out young girls,” as she conceives of it, in a British cultural climate in which doing so is almost unthinkably wrong...
This very patient film reaches out and unshakably grips us, not least because of Imelda Staunton's heartbreaking performance as the simple-souled Vera but also because Leigh neither pleads nor prosecutes her case. It includes class issues--rich girls don't need Vera--and the obvious moral one, but they are stated by implication, never by declaration. The humanity of these puzzled little people in their claustrophobic world, drowning melodrama in teacups and evasions, is, in the end, shattering. --By Richard Schickel
...Imelda, the second film by U.S.-based Filipina Ramona Diaz, is an art-house hit in the States. But the star of the show has not taken kindly to the unflattering portrait?however tempered by the director's subtlety, however softened by Marcos' own displays of disarmingly sweet self-deception. Last month, she obtained a temporary restraining order that delayed the film's distribution in the Philippines for 20 days pending a further hearing, thus scotching its scheduled premiere on July 7. Interviewed by TIME in Manila, Marcos calls it a "vicious" film, lamenting: "It's so ugly...
...saying she was merely working on a master's thesis at Stanford University's film school. Marcos has also complained that, after their initial contact a decade ago, "I never heard from [Diaz] again until a few months ago, when she called to inform me that her film Imelda will be shown at the Sundance Film Festival." Diaz says she first interviewed Marcos in 1993 for a thesis on the history of Philippine women, then contacted her a few years later to propose a documentary about her life and flew with a professional film crew to the Philippines...
...standard. They need a role model. They need a star?especially in the dark of night ... I had to be a star for the poor people, and at the same time, I had to be a slave. I had to enslave myself so that everybody became a star." If Imelda is a hit piece, its subject wielded the bludgeon herself...