![]() The Mexican interviews, especially the one with the photographer Graciela Iturbide (she deserves a documentary of her own) bemused how Frida has become a feminist icon in the US when she was supported and submissive to her more famous and wealthy husband, Diego Rivera. ![]() ![]() On the plus side, there's an interesting tour of the present day Frida Kahlo museum and the outside of the other Kahlo/Rivera houses. ![]() Modern Mexicans dancing to electronica during a carnival in Tehuantepec? There is a lot of filler footage in this (70%), much of it doesn't capture the era that she lived in and has little to do with Frida, apart from being film in Mexico. Reviewed by propaganda21 5 / 10 A disjointed mix of ideas & modern styles that fails to capture Frida Kahlo or her era.įirstly, if you have the opportunity to see the PBS documentary on The Life & Times of Frida Kahlo narrated by Mexican singer, Lila Downs, that was produced in 2005, do so because it is far more superior to this one.įor me, the modern poetic reconstructions of Frida were badly done: removing her gown in a bedroom that has a TV in it? A television set? Really? Mexico City in the 1930s & 40s? Too many shots of modern day Mexico City and too little archival footage and photographs.
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