Frida
Frida Kahlo: «I just want your serious opinion.
Diego Rivera: What do you care about my opinion? If you're a real painter, you'll paint because you can't live without painting. You'll paint till you die.»
What:
Frida
Who:
Julie Taymor (D), Clancy Sigal and Diane Lake (S)
With:
Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Valeria Golino, Diego Luna
Where:
USA, Canada, Mexico
When:
2002
How: Cinematography, Colour, LiveAction, Long, Medium, Reality, Slow, Language (English)
Why:
Why art and sufferings seem to go hand in hand sometimes?
How do you manage when there so much life in you, but your body doesn't agree?
Can politics and art go together?
What happens when the love for someone is simply not enough?
Extra:
You can see the birth and the developping of some of Khalo's most memorable paintings as part of the film and her work is used as a medium to show how she feels or set a tone of a scene.