Frida (2002)
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Reviews Counted: 151
Fresh: 115 | Rotten: 36
Frida is a passionate, visually striking biopic about the larger-than-life artist.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 13
Frida is a passionate, visually striking biopic about the larger-than-life artist.
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After being attached to a number of actors, directors, and producers, this long-gestating biography of one of Mexico's most prominent, iconoclastic painters reaches the screen under the guiding hand of producer/star Salma Hayek. Hayek ages some 30 years onscreen as she charts Frida Kahlo's life from feisty schoolgirl to Diego Rivera protégée to world-renowned artist in her own right. Frida details Kahlo's affluent upbringing in Mexico City, and her nurturing relationship with her traditional
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Salma Hayek
Frida Kahlo -
Alfred Molina
Diego Rivera -
Geoffrey Rush
Leon Trotsky -
Ashley Judd
Tina Modotti -
Antonio Banderas
David Alfaro Siqueiros -
Edward Norton
Nelson Rockefeller -
Valeria Golino
Lupe Marin -
Mia Maestro
Cristina Kahlo -
Roger Rees
Guillermo Kahlo -
Patricia Reyes Spíndola
Matilde Kahlo -
Saffron Burrows
Gracie -
Margarita Sanz
Natalia Trotsky -
Diego Luna
Alejandro Gomez Arias
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All Critics (168) | Top Critics (44) | Fresh (115) | Rotten (36) | DVD (34)
Taymor's triumph is that her film, despite its distance from us in some ways, is pertinent and enthralling.
Top CriticMs. Taymor gets magnificent performances from Ms. Hayek as Frida and Alfred Molina as the oversexed Diego Rivera.
If Frida doesn't tell us anything that we don't already know, it does dramatize Kahlo's life with a fiery, soulful beauty.
Passionate, provocative, hilarious, tragic and just dizzyingly beautiful to behold.
[The screenplay's] flatness ultimately defeats a film that's always a treat to look at.
a pity that the project paints by the numbers so much
Sporting mustcahe, Selma Hayek gives a solid performance in the otherwise conventionl and mediocre biopic of the noted Spnish artist.
Graphic biopic of artist Frida Kahlo.
Taymor conveys in imaginative cinematic fashion how for Frida, creating art and living were one and the same.
Actress Salma Hayek portrays the famed Mexican surrealist painter in a biopic that neither mythologizes nor decries the artist's accomplishments on or beyond the canvas.
Taymor brings all of her artist's compassion to bear on a subject that deserves it.
Salma Hayek earned an Oscar nomination for her fierce, passionate portrayal of the famous, iconic Mexican painter.
[A]s in soap opera, drama is synonymous with the torments of love. Hayek is a brave, tireless performer, ... but given the script she can only play Kahlo the "beguiling personality" she liked to think of herself as ... rather than Kahlo the artist.
Frida boasts a small galaxy of charismatic stars orbiting two appealing actors in the juiciest roles of their careers.
While this conventional bio-pic may please middle brow audiences, fans of Ms. Taymor are almost certain to realize that the film could have been so much more than this.
While Hayek's portrayal is appealing and sincere, it's a shade too adoring. She doesn't convey the excruciating pain that besieged Kahlo.
Disappointingly conventional, particularly given Taymor's past work on stage and screen.
A glossy, paint-by-numbers portrait best hung in a bank lobby. Taymor seems to forget that what defined Kahlo's artistic output was the terrible pain she endured...
A blasé etching of a fraught relationship, largely ignoring the social and political influences on Frida's art.
...it's the performances that elevate Frida to more than just movie-of-the-week fodder.
Salma Hayek brilha em alguns momentos e fracassa ridiculamente em outros. A direção de arte e os efeitos são interessantes, mas o roteiro não contribui. Destaque para Molina.
A maddeningly vague biography, Frida is all the worse for starting off with such narrative promise and visual pizzazz before degenerating into boring, episodic misery.
. . .a feast for the senses, the mind, and the soul.
Not bad, not great -- fine, I suppose.
Should be a fascinating story, but, oddly enough, it is not compelling.
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