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Frida

2002

Julie Taymor

Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Mía Maestro, Roger Rees ...

6.7

15,421

Drama This film tells the true story of Mexican painter and 20th century icon Frida Kahlo (Hayek), focusing on her often rocky relationship with husband Diego Rivera (Molina), and their place in Mexican society. Included in the mix will be David Siqueiros (Banderas), Rivera's rival in the Mexican art world, Tina Modotti (Judd), a famed Italian photographer, and Nelson Rockefeller (Norton), who famously contracted Rivera to paint the lobby ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Sometimes we feel as if the film careens from one colorful event to another without respite, but sometimes it must have seemed to Frida Kahlo as if her life did, too (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'Frida' is corseted by the norms of high-toned, responsible filmmaking (...) But when the movie manages to break free it honors the artist's brave, anarchic spirit"	NEU
United Kingdom	Anna Smith Empire	"With its affection for its subject and playful sense of humour, Taymor's film invites sympathy for Frida the woman before Frida the artist (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Taymor keeps everything lively and colorful, but this maverick is hamstrung by a script that seems determined to stop at all the big moments in Frida's life without giving anything time to resonate (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Those unfamiliar with Kahlo's life and work will find it lively and informative, but depth of character and insights into the creative process aren't part of the hagiographic equation."	NEU
United States	David Denby The New Yorker	"Given its ramshackle construction and its repetitions, 'Frida' is much better than it has any right to be. The movie has a rambunctious spirit and a liberated sense of color"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"A turgid and conventional biopic (...) As with many artist biopics, the connections between life and art in Frida are either too plain or too obscure"	NEU
United States	Richard Roeper Ebert & Roeper	"A film that celebrates but never sugarcoats the hard but exciting life of a brave artist."	POS
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"A revolutionary life has rarely felt less edgy, or the biography of an iconoclast more bourgeois (...) Salma Hayek makes a reasonable, mildly spiced Kahlo"	NEU

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