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Frida

2002, Movie, R, 123 mins

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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) ... read more leave a comment
Year: 2002
Rated R

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Salma Hayek: Frida Kahlo
Alfred Molina: Diego Rivera
Geoffrey Rush: Leon Trotsky
Ashley Judd: Tina Modotti
Antonio Banderas: David Alfaro Siqueiros
Edward Norton: Nelson Rockefeller

 

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  • My mom and I have a ... | Movie News | 7/28/2005
    Question: My mom and I have a disagreement about the movie Cradle Will Rock, and we'd like you to settle it. I say it's based on true events, but Mom says they just added real people to a fictional story to make it seem more authentic. A pint of Ben & Jerry's is riding on the answer. Answer: Actor-turned-filmmaker Tim Robbins' Cradle Will Rock is based on actual events, though it takes liberties with the details. Marc Blitzstein's 1937 anticapitalist operetta The Cradle Will Rock, about the effort to unionize steelworkers, was originally produced as part of the Federal Theatre Project. The Federal Theatre Project (1935-1939), in turn, was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which was created in 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt read more

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