TIME Magazine writes: “The festival’s smash hit was Burlesk Queen,
starring Filipino Superstar Vilma Santos.”“The Philippines: Let Them See Films. When politics became pretty much a one-man show in the Philippines, the people lost a prime source of entertainment. Part of the gap has been filled by a home-grown film industry, which displayed nine of its new productions at the Manila Film Festival last month. Some 2 million moviegoers saw the films.
Some of the movies were historical
dramas pointing up the search for a Filipino identity during the long years of
Spanish rule. But the most acclaimed were contemporary stories with a heavy
populist touch. The festival’s smash hit was Burlesk Queen, starring Filipino
Superstar Vilma Santos. It tells the syrupy tale of a poor girl who turns to
burlesque dancing to support a crippled father. She falls in love with the
son of a politician, elopes with him, and then tragically loses him back to his
possessive mother. The treacle is supplemented with some gritty argument
about the rights and wrongs of burlesque, with a lefthanded dig at
censors. Huffs the burlesque impresario at one point: ‘Who are they to dictate
what the people should see?’” - Time Magazine Feb. 13, 1978 Vol. 111
No. 7
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