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  1. Film Review: Frida (2002)@drax1028d

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    Salma Hayek was one of the very few Mexican telenovela stars to advance to international levels of stardom via Hollywood, but that obviously wasn’t her only career ambition. She has invested a lot of effort to persuade at least some of the great Hollywood studios to start a project she had obviously cared about - a biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), a person who permanently marked the 20th Century art world whose private life was almost as interesting as her paintings. But the idea didn’t look commercial enough to most Hollywood studio executiev, and those who were sympathetic to idea were more keen to entrust the lead role to Jennifer Lopez and Madonna. But Salma Hayek persistence paid off and in 2002 she played the main character in biopic directed by Julie Taymor and titled Frida.

    The prologue is set in 1953 when Frida Kahlo (Hayek) prepares to attend her first and the last solo exhibition, and begins to remember key events in his life. Raised in the family of German Jewish immigrant Guillermo Kahla (Rees), she always had artistic ambitions, but her life turned towards art due to horrific traffic accident in 1925, when she was 18 year old. After suffering debilitating injuries, she took three years before being able to walk again and spent the rest of his life being affected by pain and having to go through countless surgical procedures. The pain and humiliation of the the young girl, on the other hand, has reflected in paintings that showed amazing talent. That talent is recognized by Diego de Rivera (Molina), a distinguished Mexican painter, known both for his murals and radical leftist views. De Rivera becomes her mentor and husband, but their relationship will be jeopardised due to De Rivera’s contempt for the bourgeois concepts of marital fidelity. Frida decides to return the favour by having extramarital affairs of her own, often not caring much about gender of her partner. At the same time, de Rivera’s and Kahlo’s political views would embroil the couple into conflict between various factions of Mexican left wing artists and politicians, which escalates when Mexico provides asylum to former Soviet leader Leon Trotsky (played by Geoffrey Rush), now one of Stalin's most bitter opponents. De Rivera considers Trotsky his political idol and gives him refuge, while Frida gives him something even more, which will would lead to tragic consequences.

    Most of the audience came to see Frida because of stellar power of Salma Hayek. Critics, on the other hand, were intrigued by Julie Taymor, distinguished stage director who had demonstrated her avant-garde credential with her film debut Titus, unconventional adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. Taymor applies unusual style in this film, and at times combines animation, puppetry and live action to tell the story, often attempting to bring Kahlo’s famous paintings to life. But all that visual splendour can’t hide problems with the script that, like in so many biopics, try to compress someone’s life in series of disconnected episodes, often without broader social, cultural or political context. The only recurring theme appears to be pseudo-feminist deconstruction of the famous couple, in which De Rivera, despite not being that different than Kahlo, is shown as promiscuous male pig, while Kahlo’s promiscuity is portrayed with great deal of sympathy.

    Taymor and her screenwriters missed a lot of opportunity to explore broader context of Kahlo’s life. They could have put more emphasis on her position of an outsider in Mexican society – as a Jew and atheist being at odds as predominantly Catholic character of her native countr, just like being independent bisexual woman made her stand out in patriarchal macho culture. Frida all but ignored that dimension of Kahlo’s life and the vibrant left-wing politics of the era was reduced to number of celebrities played by big stars like Antonio Banderas (playing famous painter David Alfaro Siqueiros) and Ashley Judd (playing Italian photographer Tina Modotti). Shoddy treatment of the fascinating story is typified by script ignoring the role of Siqueiros had in spectacular attempt on Trotsky’s life.

    General impression of the film is saved by acting. Salma Hayek invested her heart and soul in this project and did everything to bring Frida Kahlo to life again - she let her eyebrows grow just to be as similar as possible to her, and she also interrupted her eight-year moratorium on nude scenes (which was, during Mee Too scandal in 2017, explained by pressure by notorious studio executive Harvey Weinstein). Alfred Molina, in turn, didn’t really bother too much. He made character of the obese painter look too cute, but despite that he still gives the impression that the film could have been far more interesting if titled *Diego?. Geoffrey Rush is, in turn, quite effective in the role of Trotsky, showing far better handling of Russian accent than is the case with most actors from the English-speaking area. The result of all this is pleasant to the eye and, at times, rather impressive work that will satisfy all viewers looking for an alternative to Hollywood mainstream, but which still gives too many hints that it could have been far better.

    RATING: 5/10 (++)

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  2. CineTV Contest: Frida, her real life in a movie@irenenavarroart1240d

    Greetings movie lovers, the CineTV contest invites us to share our favorite movie based on true events, this is a difficult task because these are usually my favorites, however, I am also a person who chooses the movies depending on my mood to write, so this week I have been thinking a lot about art in my life and how it has allowed me to meet great people whom I admire for their talent and at the same time these people have given me courage to create art. For that reason, the first movie that came to mind when reading the publication announcement is Frida.


    Saludos amantes del cine, el concurso de CineTV nos invita a compartir nuestra película favorita basada en hechos reales, esta es una tarea difícil pues estas suelen ser mis favoritas, sin embargo, también soy una persona que dependiendo de mi estado de ánimo escojo las películas para escribir, entonces esta semana he estado pensando mucho en el arte en mi vida y como este me ha permitido conocer grandes personas a las que admiro por su talento y a la vez estas personas me han dado valor para crear arte. Por ese motivo, la primera película que vino a la mente al leer el anuncio de la publicación es Frida.

    Frida (2002)

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    Frida is a biographical film that narrates the life of Frida Kahlo, this was a Mexican artist recognized worldwide for her pictorial art and also for her strong personality and her iconic outfits, studying Frida's art is studying her life, because her paintings are in mostly self-portraits, these paintings narrate her life and his emotions, they have an important surreal aspect, he also makes use of the self-portrait as a kind of personal catharsis of all his struggles, so the film also has very surreal moments, where the events of the artist with details but at the same time mixed with fantasy.

    Frida es una película biográfica que narra la vida de Frida Kahlo, esta era una artista mexicana mundialmente reconocida por su arte pictórico y también por su personalidad fuerte y sus atuendos icónicos, estudiar el arte de Frida es estudiar su vida, porque sus pinturas son en su mayoría autorretratos, estos cuadros narran su vida y sus emociones, tienen un aspecto surrealista importante, también hace uso del autorretrato como una especie de catarsis personal de todas sus luchas, entonces la película también tiene momentos muy surrealistas, donde se narra los acontecimientos de la artista con detalles pero al mismo tiempo se mezcla con fantasía.

    The film begins with a very young Frida, full of life, who unfortunately suffers an accident with a tram where a large metal bar crosses her body, seriously affecting her spine and one leg. From that moment on, they would begin the long journey. of physical suffering for her, she underwent many operations on her spine, after a while she walked again but with a limp, she also had to wear a special corset during her recoveries, she had so many health relapses that pain was part of her life However, in her constant bed rest she never stopped painting and expressing herself through her art. Seeing these scenes of pain in the film and seeing how she managed to paint while still in bed caused me a Great impression the first time I saw this film.

    La película comienza con una Frida muy joven y llena de vida, que lamentablemente sufre un accidente con un tranvía en donde una gran barra de metal le atraviesa el cuerpo afectando gravemente su columna vertebral y una pierna, a partir de ese momento comenzarían el largo camino de sufrimiento físico para ella, se sometió a muchas operaciones en la columna, ella después de un tiempo volvió a caminar pero cojeando, también tuvo que usar un corset especial durante sus recuperaciones, tuvo tantas recaídas de salud que el dolor era parte de su vida, sin embargo, ella en sus constantes reposo en cama nunca dejó de pintar y expresarse a sí misma por medio de su arte, ver estas escenas de dolor en la película y ver como ella se las ingeniaba para pintar aún estando en cama me causó una gran impresión la primera vez que vi este film.

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    The film also addresses Frida's love relationship with the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, in the film it is clearly seen how this relationship was not good, she loved him too much and he was constantly unfaithful to her, the key point in Frida's physical decay was her frustration of not being able to be a mother, that is why in some paintings there is even her unborn child, however, within the physical pain and emotional pain she did not stop producing art, also the film took some licenses regarding topics such as Frida's bisexuality, which is still not admitted as true by her family, as I understand it, a bit of Frida's relationship with the communist cause is also seen in the film, but although these are important aspects the weight of the film falls on Frida's medical and love drama as well as her art.

    También la película aborda la relación amorosa de Frida con el muralista mexicano Diego Rivera, en la película se ve claramente como está relación no era buena, ella lo amaba demasiado y el le era constantemente infiel, el punto clave en el decaimiento físico de Frida fue su frustración de no poder ser madre, por eso en algunas pinturas esta incluso su hijo no nacido, sin embargo, dentro del dolor físico y el dolor emocional ella no dejaba de producir arte, asimismo la película se tomó algunas licencias en cuanto a temas como la bisexualidad de Frida, la cual aún no es admitida como algo verídico por parte de la familia de ella, según tengo entendido, también se ve en la película un poco de la relación de Frida con la causa comunista, pero aunque estos son aspectos importantes el peso de la película recae en el drama médico y amoroso de Frida además de su arte.

    One of the most exciting scenes in the film is when she is happy because for the first time she will have a solo exhibition in Mexico, but at the time of the opening she is bedridden, so she decides that she will go even if she has to bring the bed with her, and so she did, unfortunately after this her health worsened

    Una de la escenas más emocionantes de la película es cuando ella está feliz porque por primera vez tendrá una exposición individual en México, pero al momento de la inauguración ella se encuentra postrada en cama, por lo cual decide que irá incluso si tiene que llevar la cama con ella, y así lo hizo, lamentablemente luego de esto su salud empeoró

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    It is completely true that reality is stranger than fiction, I cannot even imagine myself as a woman of her time, in an era where little space was given to female artists, she was able to constantly produce art and focus on her work. to the point of being recognized all over the world, knowing that she had such a fragile physical condition and that her spine was practically in pieces. The movie for me is one of the best. As an artist and art student that I was, I realize how difficult it is to go to a museum and see the works of women artists, it seems that history had taken care of erasing them in some way, but at the same time in the university the vast majority of students are women, so this particular difference between the number of women artists and the number of exhibitors in large museums seems illogical and unfair to me, I would like to see more Fridas in real life today, that all of them can exhibit in museums and get the recognition they deserve.

    Es totalmente cierto que la realidad supera a la ficción, yo ni siquiera me puedo imaginar como una mujer de su tiempo, en una época donde se le daba poco espacio a las artistas mujeres fuese capaz de producir arte de forma constante y enfocarse en su trabajo al punto de ser reconocida en todo el mundo, sabiendo que tenía una condición física tan frágil y que su columna vertebral prácticamente estaba hecha pedazos. La película para mi es de las mejores. Yo como artista y estudiante de arte que fuí, me doy cuenta cuan difícil es ir a un museo y ver obras de mujeres artistas, pareciera que la historia se hubiese encargado de borrarlas de alguna forma, pero al mismo tiempo en la universidad la gran mayoría de estudiantes son mujeres, por lo que esta particular diferencia entre el número de mujeres artistas y el número de expositoras en grandes museos me parece ilógica e injusta, yo quisiera ver más Fridas en la vida real de la actualidad, que todas puedan exponer en museos y tener el reconocimiento que merecen.


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    I hope you liked it. I invite you to read my next publications and I will always be willing to answer your questions and comments, you can also follow me and contact me on any of my social networks. Thank you!

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  3. Frida Kahlo a movie that a good idea to see again/Frida Kahlo una película que es buena idea volver a ver@neiraurdaneta1951d

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    Hello friends of Hive, today I will talk about the biographical film of Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo. Who was born in Coyoacán, Mexico, 1907. Mexican painter. Although she moved in the environment of the great Mexican muralists of her time and shared their ideals, Frida Kahlo created an absolutely personal painting, naive, innovative and deeply metaphorical at the same time, derived from her exalted sensitivity and from various events that marked her life.

    Hola amigos de Hive, hoy les hablare de la película biográfica de Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo. Quien nació en Coyoacán, México, 1907. Pintora mexicana. Aunque se movió en el ambiente de los grandes muralistas mexicanos de su tiempo y compartió sus ideales, Frida Kahlo creó una pintura absolutamente personal, ingenua innovadora y profundamente metafórica al mismo tiempo, derivada de su exaltada sensibilidad y de varios acontecimientos que marcaron su vida.

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    This feature film is based on the book Hayden Herrera. With six nominations for the 2002 Oscars, 2002 Golden Globes, 2002 BATFA, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

    This film chronologically portrays the life of the artist, her sufferings, her loves, and makes us understand her life, and what she had to go through to become the painter that she became.

    A woman who suffered from a serious illness from a very young age. At the age of 6, she contracted polio that left her sequelae that would affect her throughout her life. When she was only 18 years old, she suffered a fatal accident, which fractured her spine and pelvis.

    Este largometraje está basado en el libro Hayden Herrera. Con seis nominaciones a los premios Oscar 2002, Globos de Oro 2002, BATFA 2002 y Premios del Sindicato de Actores.

    Esta película retrata de manera cronológica, la vida de la artista, sus sufrimientos, amores y nos hacen entender su vida, y lo que tuvo que padecer para convertirse en la pintora que llegó a ser.

    Una mujer que padeció una grave enfermedad desde muy pequeña. A los 6 años contrajo poliomielitis que le dejó secuelas que la afectarían a lo largo de su vida. Cuando contaba con tan solo 18 años sufre un fatal accidente, que le fracturó la columna vertebral y la pelvis.

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    During the months that she was shown in bed, it is when Frida learns to paint to distract herself from the confinement and the terrible pains she felt. Unable to get up from her bed, she asks her parents to place a mirror on her bed, and to make her an easel that allows her to paint herself while lying down. Her paintings show her two dualities; her escape to a happy reality (her dreams of loving her and becoming a mother), and her impotence, her frustration at her terrible reality and her sorrows.

    This accident leaves serious consequences in Frida's life, which would persist throughout her life. Like the inability to have children and the multiple operations she would undergo for the rest of her life, which would cause intense and terrible pain.

    Durante los meses que estuvo mostrada en la cama, es cuando Frida aprende a pintar para distraerse del encierro y los terribles dolores que sentía. Ella sin poder incorporarse de la cama pide a sus padres le coloquen un espejo sobre su cama, y le fabriquen un caballete que le permite estando acostada pintarse ella misma. Sus pinturas muestran sus dos dualidades; su escape a una realidad feliz (sus sueños de amor y de convertirse en madre), y su impotencia, frustración ante su terrible realidad y penas.

    Este accidente deja graves secuelas en la vida de Frida, que la persistirían durante toda su vida. Como la incapacidad de tener hijos y las múltiples operaciones a la que se sometería durante el resto de su vida, y que le causarían intensos y terribles dolores.

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    The film deals with her stormy love / hate relationship with the muralist Diego Rivera, her one true love, as well as her love affairs with men and women. Among them the most famous lover of her Leon Trotsky.

    This film shows us the fragile side of a human Frida, strong and with convictions ahead of a time when women had no opinions, her duty was to have children, take care of the home and they were only the shadows of their husbands. She is influenced by the Mexican nationalism of her time and shows it in her paintings, using traditional pre-Columbian colors, and showing it in her way of dressing.

    La película trata su relación tormentosa de amor/odio con el muralista Diego Rivera, su único y verdadero amor, así como sus aventuras amorosas con hombres y mujeres. Entre ellos su amante más famoso León Trotski.

    Este film nos muestra el lado frágil de una Frida humana, fuerte y de convicciones adelantadas a una época en donde las mujeres no tenían opiniones, su deber era tener hijos, cuidar del hogar y solo eran las sombras de sus maridos. Ella es influenciada por el nacionalismo mexicano de su época y lo demuestra en sus pinturas, usando los colores tradicionales precolombinos, y mostrándolo en su manera de vestir.

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    Many of Frida's paintings were considered surrealist, a movement that with Salvador Dalí was beginning to manifest itself at that time. She was always annoyed that her works were considered surreal, to which she stated:

    "I was taken for a surrealist. This is not correct, I have never painted dreams, what I have represented was my reality." Frida Kahlo.

    Muchas de las pinturas de Frida fueron consideradas surrealista, un movimiento que con Salvador Dalí comenzaba a manifestarse en esa época. Ella siempre le molestó que consideraran sus obras como surrealistas, a lo que manifestó:

    "Se me tomaba por una surrealista. Ello no es correcto, yo nunca he pintado sueños, lo que yo he representado era mi realidad." Frida Kahlo.

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    This film masterfully shows Frida's life, with an extraordinary cast of actors, screenwriter, producers and director. Here is the trailer for the film.

    Esta película muestra magistralmente vida de Frida, con un elenco extraordinario de actores, guionista, productores y director. Acá el tráiler de la película.

    Movie Credits:

    Director: Julie Taymor. Cast: Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo.Alfredo Molina as Diego Rivera.Geoffrey Rush as Leon Trotsky.Ashey Judd as Tina Modotti. Mia Maestro as Cristina Kahlo.Roger Ress as Guillermo Kahlo. Diego Luna as Alejandro "Alex". Edward Norton as Nelson Rockefeller. Antonio Banderas as David Alfaro Siqueiros.

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  4. REVIEW : "Frida" (2002) - A movie by Julia Taymor@mandibil2198d

    Biopics are usually a kind of a love/hate "ambivalent" experience for me. As much as I love and enjoy (most) art, when art tries to portray artists, it often gets curled up in irrelevant aspects or structures that are not really that "artistic" or worse, don't give the artist in question room to be understood - in lack of better words.

    The first problem any biopicturizer always have to face is .. should I focus on a specific, naturally defined period of the artist or should I take a complete life story, birth (or youth) to death approach. In many cases the last one is chosen and mostly it ends up as "wikipedia" like run through to get to the inevitable end of life, rather than taking time to understand the artist.

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    "Frida", about the Mexican female surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, chooses the second solution so we get a largely superficial run-through of her life as a teenager, wife, lesbian lover, revolutionary communist ... and also a bit about her painting. I did not expect much to be honest going into this and I was not terrible disappointed or surprised either. I got what I expected and what little good I could find was overwhelmed by the lack of focus on the art itself.

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    The art must be the centre of an artist biopic, why is this so hard to consider? Unless off course, the art itself is not the real incentive for the "story" but some other aspects of that persons attitudes, be they political or personal, and how that could be used to further some political agenda. This is to me the real driver behind this movie ... and since it received an incredible 6 Oscar nominations and won 2, it is as good as certain it is not for the movie making side, the deep portrait of the artists art but the underlying appeal to political correctness.

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    The sexual extrovert Frida, ends up seriously wounded after a bus accident where she is literally impaled and must go through serious treatment and is bedridden for a very long time. To cheer her up her father gives her a staffili, canvas and brushes to have a bit of fun while crippled.

    We get an idea that she already has a bit of talent for the art and that she in particular has her own style and as her life seems to always be heavily influenced by the accident she has encountered, she has a bit of a nihilistic streak that comes out in her paintings as surrealist motifs often with herself or people around her as the figures.

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    She had already had an "erotic" voyeuristic incident with an established painter, Rivera, who she seeks out to help her figure out if her art is actually any good. If nopt she won't spend more time on a pipe dream.

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    Rivera is a notorious womaniser and openly communist (as most artists are) but she (at the outset) is only interested in a professional judgment and potential relation. He takes a liking to her art and to her, and off course they end up as lovers and later as wife and husband.

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    This is a crucial aspect of Frida's life since it seems that she - officially - is in support of open marriage and not being held down by the "ties" of marriage and so on. Clearly stated by a side character, so that she does not have to utter it directly herself, but viewers still get the point and project it onto her. Even if he promises her to be true to her they both know that that is not going to be the case and he keeps having affairs left and right (mostly left I suppose).

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    For reasons that can only be explained by political correctness, her life seems to be subordinate to his. She is slightly portrayed as a victim who is not given the "respect" she deserves from this "important" male artist with whom she is married. The ideals of motherhood and being a housewife, is constantly battling in her and she seems to be setting her art aside for the wellbeing of their marriage. And we never really get to enjoy her art or get an understanding of how and why her art tends to be asa peculiar but also very personal and intimate, as it is. It is as if we are supposed to think she is deliberately being held down to serve the man. At least I cannot help not explaining it in any other way.

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    The problem with the wikipedia plot structure is that as soon as one is settled with a certain period in her life, it has to move on to the next. Some aspects are only shown fleetingly, like a passage in Paris. This is annoying because it is a portrait of an artist - not a road movie. It is not really that interesting whether or not she was in Paris or Acapulco, of if she had sex with some groupie or not. I don't care. What I do care about is her art and there is too little focus on it.

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    It seems to be mainly a story about sex and politics. There are a lot of sex or sex related scenes and honestly they don't bring anything to the table. it does not even relate to her art so it is just hot filling for the sake of sex. The politics is maybe a little more serious in the sense that it is a huge part of her husband's life and art. He is basically a communist revolutionary and uses any possible chance at signalling this. most famously with the mural that eventually was torn down again in USA in the thirties. An out and out attack on "capitalism" while an appeal to the "heroism" of the worker at the "crossroad" ... that obviously should go in his direction.

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    The movie stops when Frida dies and I am left a little exhausted and left behind with a feeling of "what was this movie trying to tell me about this artist?". Nothing really - when it comes to art. It did try to start scenes from a painting of hers or relate incidents, like when she has a stillborn child, but it seemed more like a cinematic tool than a way to understand her artistic urges.

    I liked the first act until she gets married to Rivera. She was strong headed and ambitious, but with a clear sense of realism. I liked that, that felt promising and engaging. But somehow that was lost in all the later more or less banal "marital" stuff and her sexual escapades and so on. It is a great opportunity lost in my opinion, and I believe, as is always the case, it would have been better to focus on a specific period and get into that more deeply. If that is not possible, then it is not story worth telling - or there is a hidden alternative story, a political one instead, that kills all joy of it. And she goes to bed with Leon Trotsky !!! ... yuck !

    5/10

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