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Frida
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R,2hrs 3min
Genres:
Drama,Romance
Released:
October 25, 2002
Director:
Julie Taymor
Distributor:
Miramax Films
Starring:
Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush  ...more
Synopsis: 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 mother ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Hastings
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The life of an uncompromising, iconoclastic artist has never seemed as rote and inevitable as it does in Julie Taymor's Frida, an intermittently engaging but wholly ordinary biography that wouldn't be out of place premiering on a basic-cable channel. Ticking off the events in Kahlo's life like a grade-school filmstrip, Frida's screenplay -- credited to no less than four writers, not including the purported ... Full Review
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Salma Hayek
Frida Kahlo
Alfred Molina
Diego Rivera
Geoffrey Rush
Leon Trotsky
Ashley Judd
Tina Modotti
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