Quiet Muffin
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Marva
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Fleur
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
sof_gr
The cast was very good, the costumes were wonderful! It is a great movie, biography of Frida Kahlo and has much to offer. It is a true story of passion, pain, strength, courage and above all unstoppable and unselfish love. One can learn facts of Frida Kahlo's life and talent as well as get known with Frida's paintings and their history, something very important. Moreover after seeing this movie I was "stimulated" to look for more things about Frida and other painters. I vote with 8 just because I want to see the movie again to clarify some historical and political facts that I am not so sure about. Generally, it is an absolutely worth-seeing movie and I highly recommend it to everyone.
jackasstrange
Biopics aren't and will never be my piece of cake. Sure, The Pianist is one of my favorite films, i also liked a bit Schindler's List. Rare exceptions. But this one is just like 90% of the bios produced: tedious and uninteresting. Sure she was perhaps a woman with will to life, she had his physical obstacles and tried to win them and stuff, but there is really nothing more in the film. Talking about the plot, i have major problems with the fact that it has little to none focus for the secondary characters, which clearly would be interesting aces if earned a fair amount of screen time to them. The focus always being on Frida really don't helped this film, since that she was either drinking and yelling like crazy or just painting. And that is also my point:The story has no conflicts besides the traditional husband- wive discussion. The relationship of Frida with Trotski is either pointless or bad explored, because it just added useless running time to film. Also, some supposed jokes aren't funny or what's ever. This film tried to expand other limits beyond the melodrama and it clearly failed. But OK, i kinda liked to see the special cameos of Antonio Banderas and Edward Norton, which instantly took this film out of the stagnation and for once brought my interest in it. The cinematography is very nice, the art direction is terrific and got some inspirations from the Spanish paintings and their use of vivid colors in the characters, to contrast with a more neutral ambient. The music used in the film is bad, definitely not a fan. The editing was OK, it wouldn't help that much in this film anyways unless if they had cut lots of pointless scenes from it.The acting by Salma Hayek was indeed good, not impressive, but she did her job fine. She really put effort in her interpretation work of Frida. Deserved Oscar nomination.I wouldn't recommend it. A search in Wikipedia is definitely faster and more interesting.6.2/10
museumofdave
What's not to like? From the onset, the vivid colors alone dazzle, along with a superb sense of composition and an obviously earnest attempt to capsulize the life of an artist into a commercially successful film. The music in this limited biopic is intrinsic to the action, and one scene with Frida and an unexpected dancing partner, hypnotizes. The acting from both Hayek and Molina is involved and convincing, both as artists and lovers. Two caveats: one cannot effectively capsulize a vivid lifetime of artistic achievement (including a little theory and some leftist politics) into two hours--pity it couldn't have been three. Second, three cameos, even if well done, distract from our suspension of disbelief as we exclaim--look-- its Banderas in a fright wig! or isn't that Geoffrey Rush beneath that beard? Their acting is not in question, merely that the story becomes so convincing their sudden appearance is distracting. Still, a worthwhile film full of life and color and a literate commentary from director Taymor
wilson trivino
In conjunction with the Frida and Diego Exhibit at the High Museum of Art, I have been reading up on these two famous artist. In the movie Frida staring Salma Hayek in the starring role, you get a nice overview of this larger than life artist. It begins as Frida is a young rambunctious girl who is ready to take on whatever challenge is thrown her own way. Probably the biggest influence on her life was the terrible bus accident that collided with the trolley. This incident left Frida in pain for the rest of her life and prevented her from bearing children. But of course, the other major effect in her life was the long and passionate love affair with Diego Rivera. He was a man with many dominate interests, but painting and women ruled his life. He took to Frida and this began a roller coaster of a ride union. The exhibit at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta is entitled Passion, Politics, and Paintings and the movie covers all these pinnacle intersections of Frida and Diego's lives. Some of the most popular paintings are showcased in the movie and are now present for anyone to view in the largest exhibit in the United States on the Frida and Diego. Frida the movie is a timeless tale of a woman who lived her life fully and did not allow her physical limitations from creating the vision that emitted from the inner sanctum of her soul.
