Flamboyant director Julie Taymor's biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), whose bold and disturbing images of pain and wonder have grown in popularity since her death, is worthy but oddly pedestrian. Though occasionally enlivened by fanciful sequences suggesting the surreal power of Kahlo's vivid inner life, it's often mired in the mechanical accretion of incidents that blights most biographical films. Mexico City, 1922. High-school student Frida (Salma Hayek) and her friends spy on muralist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), equally notorious for his socialist sympathies and his world-class philandering, as he tries to seduce a nude model and is interrupte...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
123 mins