The Kingmaker

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Greenfield’s exploration of Imelda Marcos’s narrative takes on what the New York Times calls a “dialectic” approach, allowing Imelda to tell her narrative and slowly introducing opposing viewpoints as the movie progresses. The film is organically divided into two parts, following the chronology of the events of Marcos’s life. The first half focuses on Imelda’s life from the time she became first lady of the Philippines in 1965, through the 21 years where she and her husband ruled the Philippines, until they were deposed and forced into exile by the 1986 People Power revolution. As described by IndieWire, the second half of the film “features survivors of her husband’s declaration of martial law and focuses on the political comeback of the Marcos family,”focused on the ascension of her son Bongbong Marcos to increasingly prominent national posts.