The film is gorgeous to look at but emotionally flat.įour screenwriters (Clancy Sigeland, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas) are credited for adapting Hayden Herrera's biography and they tick through the defining events of Frida's life without getting at the minutiae that would make it breath.
But while director Julie Taymor's visual sense once again explodes on screen, the irony is that passion is exactly what "Frida" lacks. Producer/star Hayek's long held passion for a film version of "Frida" succeeded where many had failed before her. The emotional torment caused by her husband in addition to the physical pain she already suffered defined the art created by "Frida." Rivera swept Frida into a new social circle and then his bed, before making her his third wife in 1929.
During her lengthy convalescence, Frida began to paint and once she could walk again, she audaciously visited famous muralist, Communist and womanizer Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina, "Chocolat") for a critique of her work. The daughter of a European Jewish photographer and Mexican mother, Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek, "Traffic") was crippled by polio as a young girl only to suffer extensive injuries years later in a bus accident that would keep her in pain for the rest of her life.
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