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Frida

Frida film poster
Directed by Julie Taymor
Produced by Sarah Green,
Salma Hayek,
Jay Polstein
Written by Clancy Sigal
Diane Lake
Gregory Nava
Anna Thomas
(based on the book by Hayden Herrera)
Starring Salma Hayek
Alfred Molina
Antonio Banderas
Valeria Golino
Ashley Judd
Mía Maestro
Edward Norton
Geoffrey Rush
Music by Elliot Goldenthal
Cinematography Rodrigo Prieto
Editing by Françoise Bonnot
Distributed by Miramax Films
Release date(s) August 29, 2002
Running time 123 min.
Language English
Budget ~ $12,000,000
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For other uses, see Frida (disambiguation).

Frida is a 2002 film which depicts the life of the artist Frida Kahlo and portrays the tortured personal life of this Mexican artist. It stars Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo and Alfred Molina as Diego Rivera.

The movie was adapted by Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas and Edward Norton (uncredited) from the book Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera. It was directed by Julie Taymor while the soundtrack was written by Elliot Goldenthal.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The traumatic accident Frida had at the age of 18 when a car trolley collided with a bus is depicted in Frida. The injuries she obtained were to plague her for the rest of her life. Her initial stages of recovery at the hospital are depicted through a nightmarish stop motion animation sequence created by the Brothers Quay. Her father brings her a canvas upon which to start painting while she is lying in hospital and cannot move. A few times the film shows a scene as a painting, then slowly dissolves into a real scene with actors. Frida also details the artist's relationship with the artist Diego Rivera, especially her anger at his infidelity and her continuing love for him despite of this. Diego's appraisal of her painting ability is one of the reasons that she continues to paint. The two travel to New York in the film so that Diego can paint a mural at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York, but he refuses to compromise his vision of the work to the needs of the patron and it is destroyed, leading to their return to Mexico. The relationship between her suffering and her art is explored.

Frida chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), 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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