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Bringing a fiery warmth and accessibility to the central role, [Hayek] proves a good match for the artist as she depicts Kahlo's indomitable will to live, love and paint.
Full reviewSalma Hayek stars in this biopic of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
Frida chronicles the life Frida Kahlo 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.
Bringing a fiery warmth and accessibility to the central role, [Hayek] proves a good match for the artist as she depicts Kahlo's indomitable will to live, love and paint.
Full reviewIt's a solid introduction to the cult of Kahlo, devoting almost as much screen time to her work as to her affairs, tantrums and betrayals by Rivera, doctors and her own treacherous flesh.
Full reviewIt's enough to make you scurry off to find a book about Frida Kahlo - which is, perhaps, the ultimate compliment for a film biography.
Full reviewHamstrung by a script that seems determined to stop at all the big moments in Frida's life without giving anything time to resonate.
Full reviewSometimes we feel as if the film careens from one colourful event to another without respite, but sometimes it must have seemed to Frida Kahlo as if her life did, too.
Full reviewMeticulously mounted, exasperatingly well-behaved film, which ticks off Kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant.
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