Frida

    Frida
    2002

    Synopsis

    A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

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    Cast

    • Salma Hayek PinaultFrida Kahlo
    • Alfred MolinaDiego Rivera
    • Mía MaestroCristina Kahlo
    • Patricia Reyes SpíndolaMatilde Kahlo
    • Diego LunaAlejandro
    • Roger ReesGuillermo Kahlo
    • Ashley JuddTina Modotti
    • Antonio BanderasDavid Alfaro Siqueiros
    • Edward NortonNelson Rockefeller
    • Saffron BurrowsGracie

    Recommendations

    • 88

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Sometimes we feel as if the film careens from one colorful event to another without respite, but sometimes it must have seemed to Frida Kahlo as if her life did, too.
    • 80

      Washington Post

      Endlessly interesting. It's about people who thought ideas and art mattered, which makes it a rarity today.
    • 70

      Village Voice

      Swank and splashy as it is, Frida leaves the lurking suspicion that Taymor might have preferred to stage her pageant as a puppet show.
    • 70

      Slate

      If you want rich folk-art colors, brainy spectacle, and breezy soap opera, then Frida is the biopic for you.
    • 67

      Austin Chronicle

      As directed by Taymor, it's a competent and nicely designed biopic that for all of the director's attempts to link surrealist film imagery with Hayek's depiction of Kahlo somehow manages to be generally lackluster.
    • 63

      USA Today

      It's too bad that this long-awaited movie didn't go further than faithfully re-creating Kahlo's artwork and her studied look. Her passionate and tragically short life (she died at 47) is ideal Hollywood material, but the audience is left wanting a more in-depth portrait.
    • 60

      The New Yorker

      Smart, willful, and perverse, this Frida is nobody's servant, and the tiny Hayek plays her with head held high. You may want to laugh now and then, but you won't look away. [11 November 2002, p. 195]
    • 60

      Washington Post

      Ultimately, the movie's biggest crime is its inability to convey the delicate, damaged texture of Kahlo's life, but also the triumph of her will over intimidating defeat.

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