Archive: Keswick Film Festival

Sunday 1st March 11:15 AM - Alhambra

The Kingmaker

Director: Lauren Greenfield Country: USA/Denmark
Cert: 15 Year: 2019 Length: 100 mins

2020 Festival

Book Tickets

Audience Reaction

Score: 83.33% Attendance: 98

Links

Together with her husband Ferdinand, Imelda Marcos stockpiled assets worth an estimated $5-10 billion from the Filipino people – not to mention that notorious wardrobe-full of shoes.

Yet despite that breathtaking corruption and the brutality of Marcos' martial law-imposing regime, Imelda and her son Bongbong, who is bidding for the vice-presidency, are on the comeback trail.

Thanks to Dogwoof

Critics

An acute study of the psychology of power and a portrait of someone with an incredible, almost inviolable sense of entitlement

Ico

While the film starts in wry fly-on-the-wall mode, it morphs into something weightier and surreally unsettling - Louis Theroux to Luis Buñuel in 60 minutes flat.

Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph

As horror stories go, it's sometimes funny. As comedies go, it's pretty horrifying.

Nigel Andrews, Financial Times