Actors - Frida

	Actors - Frida

Frida is a 2002 film which depicts the life of the artist Frida Kahlo. It portrays the tortured personal life of the Mexican artist. It stars Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina.

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 while the soundtrack was written by Elliot Goldenthal.

Some of the paintings attributed to Kahlo in the film were actually painted by Salma Hayek.

Frida includes trolley accident at the age of 18 in which Frida suffers severe injury. Her initial stages of recovery at the hospital are depicted through a nightmarish stop motion animation sequence created by the Brothers Quay. Her father brings her a canvas from which to start painting while she is lying in hospital and cannot move. She goes on to do many more paintings. A few times the film shows a scene as a painting, then slowly dissolves into a real scene with actors. Frida also details the artist's on-again-off-again relationship with artist Diego Rivera, especially her anger at his infidelity and her love for him nevertheless. Diego's assessment of her painting ability is one of the reasons that she continues to paint. The two travel to New York in the film so that Diego can paint a mural at Rockefeller plaza in New York, but he refuses to compromise on the composition of the work and it is destroyed, leading to their return to Mexico. The relationship between her suffering and her art is explored.

Tagline: Prepare to be seduced.

Trivia

Frida Kahlo's niece was so impressed with the film that she gave Salma Hayek one of Kahlo's necklaces.

Cast

Alejandro Usigli - Professor
Alfred Molina
- Diego Rivera
Amelia Zapata - Maid
Ashley Judd
- Tina Modotti
Diego Luna
- Alejandro Gonzalez Arias
Fermín Martínez - Painter on Bus
Geoffrey Rush
- Leon Trotsky
Loló Navarro - Nanny
Lucia Bravo - Auditorium Model
Margarita Sanz - Natalia Trotsky
Mía Maestro
- Cristina Kahlo
Patricia Reyes Spíndola - Matilde Kahlo
Roger Rees
- Guillermo Kahlo
Salma Hayek
- Frida Kahlo
Valeria Golino
- Lupe Marín
Felipe Fulop - Jean van Heijenoort
Edward Norton
- Nelson Rockefeller
Antonio Banderas
- David Alfaro Siqueiros

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