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Plot:
The life of artist Frida Kahlo--from her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband, Diego Rivera, to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative roma...( read more 
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MCT:August 2, 2008
La mejor actuación que haya visto de Hayek, me sorprendió bastante. Creo que esta historia en particular era un gran reto para cualquiera y por suerte quienes realizaron esta pelicula hicieron un muy buen trabajo. Me gustó mucho el que no hayan olvidado que se trataba de la vida de una pintora, lo cual se refleja en la forma en que se incorporaron sus obras y en todo el ambiente surrealista que se creó alrededor del personaje. Recomendada.
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MCT:August 1, 2008
Kudos to Julie Taymor pulling off such a risky, direct, high profile cast adaptation of the life of this very important woman. I went into watching this knowing very little about the Frida and yet, watching Hayek, I just knew she had hit her dead on. The rest of the cast is eclectic, but strong, and to see the struggles this woman went through throughout her life, makes any of our complains pale in comparison. It's not your typical biographical film, and that's exactly why I like it.
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MCT:July 30, 2008
Ambitious dramatic biography of mexican artist and activist Frida Kahlo, who fought both physical and emotional challenges throughout her life.
As far as good as acting, directing, and screenwriting goes, the best thing in the movie remains its wonderfully written score by Elliot Goldenthal.
Tons of cameos in this one, noting Edward Norton, Geoffrey Rush, and Antonio Banderas, all who shouldn't be mentioned in the original cast. -
MCT:July 29, 2008
wow i have just seen this 4 the 1st time n think that this is a really powerful movie 2 watch..this has got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie...i think that the scenery throughout this movie is really kewl as well...this has got a good director behind this Drama, Art House & International movie because the director keeps you on the edge's of your seats throughout this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie because the director keeps you on the edge's of your seats throughout this movie n u never know what 2 expect throughout this movie..this is a good Drama, Art House & International movie 2 watch
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MCT:July 29, 2008
I don't think I've ever seen Salma Hayek act so well. I particularly enjoyed how they incorporated Kahlo's paintings into the plot, and how in part they shot New York and Paris using black and white (either collage through King Kong, or black and white with Kahlo in colour). It gave the film an eclectic feel which I felt fit well with Kahlo's painting style. However, it would have been nice if Edward Norton had been given a bigger part, though as who I don't know.
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MCT:July 23, 2008''At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can. ''
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
Salma Hayek: Frida Kahlo
Frida is quite simply a study of art, of music, of passion and the story of Frida Kahlo depicted upon film in the most beautiful ways imaginable. Granted too if you love Biopics then Frida you will love for it's detail , imagination and trueness and captured essence of life.
It also helps that the Director is Julie Taymor, a woman of vision that does the job of capturing this Artists life in a way that no man could muster.
Artful sequences of imagination merging her art with movement really helps the film drown in a quality of utmost beauty and significance. If you thought that was close to perfection, I haven't mentioned the passionate, sensual, vibrant melodies that course through the heart of Frida. Blending this woman's story with music, art and hope. The ups and downs of her accident, of her romantic encounters and turbulent yet loving marriage.
Salma Hayek as Frida dislpays an energy that really gives an accurate portrayal of this artistic woman. Giving a performance that borders on magical fiery believability. Her chemistry with Alfred Molina as Diego Rivera, is phenomenal as we see their loving, mad, passionate relationship come to life on screen.
Ashley Judd gives a good perfomance, as does brief roles for Antonio Banderas & Edward Norton popping up in the mix. Geoffrey Rush also deserves a mention as Leon Trotsky who plays a controversial idealist who has a bond later in the film with Frida.
Loved sequences featuring the Original King Kong, Frida's art and really reminded me of Malena, Amelie and Love me if you Dare in it's imaginative sequences that use clever visual effects to blend the story together. The acoustics and music I must mention again as being simply divine and Latin drenched passion.
Whether it be Frida's scary accident near the beginning, her fascination with art and her loving friendships and relationships.
Most of all I loved how this film Frida combined her Art Works with the same points of her life occurring on screen at interwoven intervals.
Frida is like it's subject and main woman a story of love and passion, that oozes with art and becomes larger than life in the process. Absolutely incredible, thus will be watching again soon, just to take in all that magic of Frida once again. -
MCT:June 26, 2008I've mostly seen Salma Hayek in comedies, and I've never seen Alfred Molina is a movie like this either, and he was thinner than he in new movie xD
Weird seeing Diego Luna (main leader in Dirty Dancing 2) doing a sex scene with Salma =S
Antonio Banderas and Edward Norton had two SMALL roles, wish that they'd have a bigger role!
Even Geoffrey Rush had a bigger role, also he did a sex scene with Salma (so did Molina), and it was SO weird seeing it.
Also the sheriff (Roger Rees) in Men in Tights played Salma's father, he did a great job! -
MCT:June 26, 2008i absolutley loved this movie. Frida was such and amazing artist and she knew how to present her life in her paintings. Salma depicted her wonderfully.
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MCT:June 18, 2008
Frida Kahlo is one of my heroes and an amazing visual storyteller. Julie Taymor is one of my favorite directors and an incredible visual storyteller. This combination creates an honest examination of what it was like to be Frida. It might follow the typical biographical film trajectory in its narrative, but its visuals are living paintings, a nightmarish stop-motion doctor's office, and a collage style trip through New York. Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina inhabit these people and deliver award worthy work. Molina should have gotten a Best Actor nomination as Diego, and Hayek was my favorite to win Best Actress. Ah well, just my opinion anyway.
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MCT:May 22, 2008
Recently watched this movie again after visiting the Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and I really feel they did a wonderful job on this film. I have so many things in common with Frida Kahlo it's a bit weird, but she will always be my favorite painter.
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MCT:May 18, 2008
...this movie was good; it kept my attention & was interesting. BUT...it's incredible the sketchiness of Frida's life. I would take heed of the "R" rating if you are thinking about watching this, but it is an interesting film on an artist with talent.
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MCT:May 17, 2008
I saw this film and did not like it...but now I love it, it has a beauty in it that is as colrful as Kahlo's paintings...amazing film to tribute an amazing life...Molina/Hayek are wonderful
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MCT:May 4, 2008
At one point during the film, Diego Rivera tells Frida Kahlo that while he can only paint what he sees, she paints from the heart. And so it is as it should be that Taymor's biopic of Frida's life is the landscape of Frida's heart rather than a straightforward telling of the events of her life.
Star/producer Salma Hayek and director Julie Taymor have infused Frida with a visual style unique and inherent to the titular character's paintings and in the process created a masterful work of art of their own.
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MCT:March 31, 2008this fucking crap started well but then they fucking started to break kayfabe..and then all hell broke loose....
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MCT:March 30, 2008
decent adaption. Mixed and inconsistent artistic visuals prove to be highlights and annoyances. The brothers' quay: hot. Trolley accident, gratuitous fluff. Molina is great. Hayek I wish had more. She looks great but seems more a portrait of kahlo rather than embodying her.
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MCT:March 20, 2008
I watched this Movie last nigt,I liked it very much,Fridas movie and her story is very interesting and the trails she went thorugh.Shes Courageous and her art is wonderful.
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MCT:March 19, 2008
ufff :D muy per muy buena pelicula :D jaja muy buena actuacion y trama :D ahi k saber un poco de historia para entenderla pero es buena :D..
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MCT:March 14, 2008
The choice of Julie Taymor to direct a film about Frida Kahlo was an excellent stroke. Here was a director with the same fierce and energy and intelligence as Kahlo herself. Taymor also had just the right mixture of imagination and sardonic wit to keep Frida's story from turning into a melodrama, as the film was given a light touch without losing depth and without ignoring Kahlo's dark side.
Of course, most films on artists' lives drown in angst, grotesque behaviour on how and why the artist creates. Yet the film is a different kind of story that offered unusual insight into not only the creative impulses of a truly unique woman artist, but also into one of the most passionate and complex love stories of our time.
Thirty years of Frida's life are covered in the span of a two-hour film. It's a film with combination of epic tale of love, art and politics. -
MCT:March 10, 2008
I wasn't sure I would like this movie after the first half hour. Its graphic, vulgar and odd. But its passionate and its an amazing tale. Salma Hayek was born to play this role and its so unique how they incorporated her art in with the motion picture. Great cast, amazing acting if you are patient for it to pick up its pace.
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MCT:February 29, 2008
I didn't like the beginning, totally the first half wasn't good. but the second half and specially the ending was fabulous.
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MCT:February 17, 2008
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
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MCT:February 16, 2008Salma, go make some porn and stop doing this shit you call "hollywood career". And boy do hipsters love to pretend that they like Frida Kahlo, even when her paintings were crappy as hell.
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MCT:February 16, 2008
perfect in every way: colors, music, story. you can see how it's directed by a woman, and everybody should see this movie because it's about such a great woman. frida is something i can't watch without crying but still it's something i need to watch regularly because it makes me believe in some important things.
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MCT:February 14, 2008
good.. but a little confusing.. and when antonio is the 3. picture in the cast you exspect him to be more in the movie, then the 10 min he is.. so if you want to see it because Antonio is in it... watch an other one ;)
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MCT:February 7, 2008I missed the first hour of this movie so I wasn't into it as much as my wife. Salma Hayek is beautiful, though!
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