Today’s movie is a biographical drama with a scene that happens on
September 17. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
FRIDA
Frida Kahlo is an unconventional
teen in 1920’s Mexico. On September 17, 1925 [8:03 to 10:45] she’s injured in a
bus accident. During her lengthy and painful recovery she starts to draw and
paint. She asks the prominent artist Diego Rivera if she should continue and he
says yes. She gradually becomes a part of Rivera’s circle of radical leftists.
They have an affair and are later married, with Frida telling the philandering
Rivera she expects loyalty, if not fidelity. They go to New York City, so
Rivera can work on a mural for the lobby of Rockefeller Center. Frida has a
miscarriage and returns briefly to Mexico when her mother dies. Rivera paints
in the face of Lenin, then refuses to remove it, Rivera is fired and the mural
is painted over. Frida and Rivera return to Mexico. They live in two
side-by-side houses. Then Frida learns Rivera is having an affair with her
sister, leading to their separation and alcoholic depression. They reunite when
Leon Trotsky comes to Mexico. Frida and Trotsky begin an affair, which he later
ends. This leads to another separation between Frida and Rivera. She moves to
Paris. When she returns she and Rivera divorce. Trostky is murdered and Rivera
is considered a suspect. When he can’t be found Frida is jailed for a
time. She remarries Rivera and later
dies, after having to have her leg amputated.
An interesting biopic. Frida was
certainly unusual. This film uses interesting special effects, moving from pictures into live action.
Frida Kahlo by Elizabeth
Carpenter (D.A.P., New York, 2007) at page 94 gives the date of her
accident
Producer - Sarah Green, Salma
Hayek and Jay Polstein
Director - Julie Taymor
Screenplay - Clancy Sigal, Diane
Lake, Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas
Awards – The movie won the Best
Makeup and Best Original Score Oscars. It was also Nominated for the Best
Actress(Hayek), Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design and Best Original Song at the 75th
Academy Awards.
Runtime – 2 hours 3 minutes
Released – August 29, 2002
Starring -
Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo
Alfred Molina as Diego Rivera
Geoffrey Rush as Leon Trotsky
Mía Maestro as Cristina Kahlo
Ashley Judd as Tina Modotti
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014.
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