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Genres:
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Biography /
Drama /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Julie Taymor
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Actors:
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Alejandro Usigli,
Lucia Bravo,
Patricia Reyes Spíndola,
Fermín Martínez,
Roberto Medina,
Salma Hayek,
Mía Maestro,
Amelia Zapata,
Diego Luna,
Alfred Molina,
Valeria Golino,
Loló Navarro,
Roger Rees,
Ashley Judd,
Antonio Banderas
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Duration:
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118 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)174.5
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Plot Summary:
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Brilliant colours that deliver Frida Kahlo's Mexico City to vibrant lifestyle combine with a captivating exhibition around Salma Hayek to descry guide Julie Taymor's FRIDA a fascinating film. Starting and ending with Frida on her deathbed, the screen spans the famous painter's living from her teenage years to her dying at the young age of 47. From start to finish, Frida is portrayed as a relentlessly energized, self-upright, headstrong, assertive cleaning woman. She had liberal views and a socialist partisan bearing. She was bisexual and heterogeneous. She drank and abused painkillers, sang an... d danced, and fearlessly poured her pain and beauty into her paintings. At the age of 18, Frida was horribly injured in a bus mistake. Granting she accomplished to pathway again, she lived her life in physical agony, enduring multiple surgeries, and in due course needing a wheelchair. Yet her condition did not pause her from having an exciting, tumultuous time as the wife of famed artist and womaniser Diego Rivera, who mentored her in her own work and encouraged her passions. While Frida's life is the main target, her work is always furnish and the reaction behaviour of the coating often fades into paintings and transgression versa. Setting aside how, the film just hints at the recognition and worldwide advertise that her painting received after her death. Taymor has created a active and dramatically emotive cover with FRIDA, capturing her appealing resiliency with colour, music and, of course, craft.
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Extremely original
This movie should appeal to everyone. It is very original and extremely informative and entertaining all at the same time. The movie is entangled with Mexican culture and is visually stimulating by way of paintings done by Frida Kahlo herself. Thoroughly enjoyable and well worth watching.
The DVD contains a 35 minute interview with Salma Hayek in which she reveals all she went through to make this movie and how all the famous actors came to be in this movie.
Frida
A visually-stirring biopic of revered Mexican artist Frida Kahlo from Titus director Julie Taymor. Breathtaking, wry and painfully truthful
"If you're a real painter," says Diego Rivera (Molina), when he meets his future wife Frida Kahlo (Hayek), "you'll paint until you die." Death, so often celebrated in Mexican culture, is very much at the heart of Julie Taymor's illuminating biopic Kahlo.
The film begins with a flash-forward, as a bed-ridden Kahlo is carried to the first exhibition of her work, despite being close to the end of her life (she died in 1954). As we wind back to 1922, we soon understand that death dominated her life - and would eventually influence her painting. Her right leg crippled by polio as a child, Frida's "Judas of a body", as...
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