Frida

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Okay, I caught the ending of this film on the television a little while ago. However, I've seen this film so many times before that I figured might as well create a review it.


This is the film biography of a famous mexican painter name Frida Kahlo (Rivera). It portrays the unfortunate events that happened during Frida's life-that oddly enough made her a legendary painter. 


I did find it interesting how-shown through the film-Frida's husband was the momentary celebrity painter, but Frida becomes the legend in the end. (Just a thought-I could be wrong.) Anyway, this film was directed by Julie Taymor-who has now become known as a artistic director. I enjoyed the creative approach to the telling of this story. It is told through Frida's portraits, and her memories. It ties in well, because several of Frida's portraits were a symbol of a pained moment in her life. Granted it might throw some audience's off at first. There is also a lot os sex in this film, and there is a lot of mention about Communism. I enjoyed the complex character relationships in this film; sort of the idea that you can't always tell your heart no. This might frustrate, and confuse, some audience's but it works for the honesty of the film. This film doesn't have much beauty, and simple effective special effects that you just have to watch for. Instead this film conveys more of a darker side to real life, and can appear almost sinister at times.


Salma Hayek performs the role of Frida Kahlo. She strips away her beauty, and creates a truly unique character. Her performance is very heart wrenching, and really pulls into the deep emotions that Kahlo faced with life accidents, love, family, and political choices. Alfred Molina performs the role of Diego Rivera (Frida's husband/friend). He is an iconic actor because of his portrayal of Spider-Man villain back in 2004. In this film, he had the tough job of creating a man who can't say no to any woman, and has to make audience's love him. He managed to pull to role of greatly; making audience's like and despise him at the same time. Mia Maestro, Cristina Kahlo, is entertaining to watch in this film. She creates the very sympathetic character that is Frida's sister. Geoffrey Rush creates the controversial role of Leon Trotsky. He is Russian Marxist, who becomes entangled with Frida while being protected in her father's house.  He is almost unrecognizable with his accent, and big mustache. However, he does great in this role. Valeria Golino, Lupe Marin (Rivera), does great being a voice of reason and sympathetic friend. If you watch you'll find Antonio Banderas make a small appearance in this film-that is really funny to watch. 


I give this film a 10 out of 10 stars! It is dark, and definitely not a children's film, but it is very heartfelt. I also found the artistic styling to be unique to modern films. The complex character relationships might appear very unusual, but it does convey the life story of Frida Kahlo. 


Answer to last blog: Wes Anderson directed the dysfunctional family film The Royal Tenenbaums. 


Que: What villain did the actor, Alfred Molina, perform in the 2004 Spider-Man Film?


Green Goblin
Sandman
Kingpin
Doc Ock/Dr. Otto Octavious