Starring: - Salma Hayek
- Alfred Molina
- Geoffrey Rush
Description:
Brilliant colors that bring Frida Kahlo's Mexico City to vibrant life combine with a captivating performance by Salma Hayek to make director Julie Taymor's FRIDA a fascinating film. Starting and ending with Frida on her deathbed, the film spans the famous painter's life from her teenage years to her death at the young age of 47. From start to finish, Frida is portrayed as a relentlessly energized, self-righteous, headstrong, asserted woman. She had liberal views and a socialist political stance. She was bisexual and promiscuous. She drank and abused painkillers, sang and danced, and fearlessly poured her pain and beauty into her paintings. At the age of 18, Frida was horribly injured in a bus accident. Though she learned to walk again, she lived her life in physical agony, enduring multiple surgeries, and eventually needing a wheelchair. Yet her condition did not stop her from having an exciting, tumultuous life as the wife of famed artist and womanizer Diego Rivera, who mentored her in her own work and encouraged her passions. While Frida's life is the main focus, her work is always present and the action of the film often fades into paintings and vice versa. However, the film only hints at the recognition and worldwide display that her painting received after her death. Taymor has created a lively and dramatically emotive film with FRIDA, capturing her endearing resiliency with color, music, and, of course, art.
1. Benediction And Dream - Lila Downs
2. Floating Bed, The
3. El Conejo - Los Cojolites
4. Paloma Negra - Chavela Vargas
5. Self-Portrait With Hair Down
6. Alcoba Azul - Lila Downs
7. Carabina 30/30 - El Poder Del Norte
8. Solo Tu
9. El Gusto - Trio Huasteco Caimanes De Tamuin
10. Journey, The
11. El Antifaz - Liberacion/Miguel Galindo/Alejandro Marehuala/Gerardo Garcia
12. Suicide Of Dorothy Hale, The
13. La Cavalera
14. La Bruja - Salma Hayek/Los Vega
15. Portrait Of Lupe
16. La Llorona - Chavela Vargas
17. Estrella Oscura - Lila Downs
18. Still Life
19. Viva La Vida - Trio/Marimberos
20. Departure, The
21. Coyoacan And Variations
22. La Llorona - Lila Downs/Mariachi Juvenil De Tecalitlan
23. Burning Bed
24. Burn It Blue - Caetano Veloso/Lila Downs
Frida
