
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.... (Full plot summary below)
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"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.
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| Film Quips OnlineJohn R. McEwen...Aptly honors one of the most interesting and tragic love stories in the history of art. |
| San Diego MetropolitanJean LowerisonBeautifully put together and lovely to watch. |
| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea Chase. . .a feast for the senses, the mind, and the soul. |
| IGN MoviesTodd GilchristActress Salma Hayek portrays the famed Mexican surrealist painter in a biopic that neither mythologizes nor decries the artist's accomplishments on or beyond the canvas. |
| Supercala.comJohn VenableOddly enough, there's not enough about Frida, but it's still a well-acted and great looking film. |
| Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyA dynamic portrait of an artist by an artist, one as wry, audacious and erotically charged as its flamboyant subject. |
| FilmsInReview.comVictoria AlexanderHayek is stunning as Frida and...a star-making project. |
| New York PostJonathan ForemanThe most effective moments in Taymor's gorgeous, surprisingly romantic Frida are those that evoke the visual world from which Kahlo's work was formed or the paintings themselves, often using clever animation and other special effects. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonThe film seems a mad mix of staid PBS bio-drama, flamboyant musical comedy and surreal cartoon nightmare. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittWhy do the movies always turn the lives of fascinating, complex artists into the same old boring story? |