Frida movie

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

Frida is a 2002 Academy Award-winning film which depicts the life of the surrealist painter Frida Kahlo and portrays the tortured personal life of this Mexican artist. It stars Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo and Alfred Molina as Diego Rivera.The movie was adapted by Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas and Edward Norton (uncredited) from the book Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera. It was directed by Julie Taymor and the original music score was composed by Elliot Goldenthal.PlotThe traumatic accident Frida had at the age of 18 when a car trolley collided with a bus is depicted in Frida. She is impaled by a metal pole and the injuries sustained plague her for the rest of her life.

Her father brings her a canvas upon which to start painting while she is bedridden. Throughout the film a scene starts as a painting, then slowly dissolves into a live-action scene with actors. The relationship between Fridas suffering and her art is explored.Frida also details the artists relationship with the muralist Diego Rivera, especially her anger at his infidelity and her continuing love for him despite this. When Diego proposes to Frida she tells him she expects from him loyalty if not fidelity. Diegos appraisal of her painting ability is one of the reasons that she continues to paint.The two travel to New York City so that Diego may paint the mural Man at the Crossroads at the Rockefeller Center. While in the United States Kahlo suffers a miscarriage and her mother dies in Mexico.

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Frida Cast

• Alejandro Usigli
• Alfred Molina
• Amelia Zapata
• Antonio Banderas
• Ashley Judd
• Diego Luna
• Fermín Martínez
• Loló Navarro
• Lucia Bravo
• Mía Maestro
• Patricia Reyes Spíndola
• Roberto Medina
• Roger Rees
• Valeria Golino