Frida
2002 Directed by Julie Taymor
Synopsis
Prepare to be seduced
"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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MAJOR SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Frida and Trotsky do the horizontal mambo and Trotsky dangles his pointed goatee on Frida's chin.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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If there is one subgenre of film that I am almost uniformly against, it'd have to be the biopic. As with any genre there are a few exceptions to the rule, but for the most part these don't work and I can't really imagine a place for them to belong in the industry. It makes sense in theory to want to depict the life of someone in a motion picture, but there's just no way that you can properly condense something like that, all of the straight facts of a life along with the intricacies of capturing the internal experience of a person's life, within a period of 120-180 minutes. If you want a biography of someone, the better option…
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MAJOR SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Frida and Trotsky do the horizontal mambo and Trotsky dangles his pointed goatee on Frida's chin.
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So gushingly arty, beautifully free-spirited, it's Salma Hayek's most visible and memorable performance to date; But....no wonder you've never heard of her - no one involved seems interested creating a coherent spectrum of Frida Cahlo, instead content in ignoring her as an icon, creating an interesting human being and generally stating and re-stating that there was no line between the two, (the makers of Pollock should have pitched in, that film was nothing but Pollack-as-icon.) Taymor is a major talent, though; Frida isn't quite as rapturous or ambitious (or as entertaining) as Taymor's 1999 opus, Titus, but the two aren't really comparable enough to judge against one another; Frida is a free-flowing vision of a woman's struggle to make good and bad choices and define herself as an independent artist who can love. That's just plain rare.
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This movie was fantastic! Only Salma Hayek could look sexy with a unibrow! The story itself was very interesting (and I appreciated the attention to detail and commitment to realism with regard to Kahlo's life story), but what was really captivating was the cinematography, and the way in which they incorporated the artist's own 2D images into the 3D medium of film. It is set in Mexico City, and after my recent trip there, it was so exciting to say "Hey! I've been there!" at most of the shooting locations.
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Accents a little confusing. The artsy component not consistent, otherwise could have been good.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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If there is one subgenre of film that I am almost uniformly against, it'd have to be the biopic. As with any genre there are a few exceptions to the rule, but for the most part these don't work and I can't really imagine a place for them to belong in the industry. It makes sense in theory to want to depict the life of someone in a motion picture, but there's just no way that you can properly condense something like that, all of the straight facts of a life along with the intricacies of capturing the internal experience of a person's life, within a period of 120-180 minutes. If you want a biography of someone, the better option…
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This is one of those movies that I had always wanted to watch to see why Salma Hayek got an Oscar nod. Now after viewing it, I know why. This film is pretty good and does a better job than most of the biopics because instead of getting lost in one point in time and covering it to death, the movie is able to span her life when she is more mature instead of making the mistake that most bipics show which is her when she is a child until she is dead. Salma is great in this film and it will probably go down as her best performance ever unless she is able to top it, but it seems…
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not bad
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3 out of 5 (B-)