

FRIDA was realized in 2002 by Salm Hayek who played Frida -she has been nominated for best actress to the Oscar.
This movie is a biography of Frida Kahlo a Mexican painter born in 1907.
Movie starts with nice pictures of her happy childwood with her parents and her sisters.But when she was 18, she was in a bus whitch crashed into a trolleybus.

After this accident she stayed several month in a bed and started to paint. She was closed to all her family who supported her during her revival.
A mirror was placed on the ceiling of her bed.With his father's aquarelle, she painted her reflect expressing her feelings and emotions.

After two years she can walk again and she met Diego Rivera a painter. She asked him his opinion about her paintings. They felt in love and their love story was extravagant. Diego was a frescas painter throught the world. His was infaithful, and Frida gave us her perception of their story in her painting.
Because of her accident, she couln't have child and several of her painting discribed her distress.
When she discovered his husband has a relation with her sister she was distroyed.

She started to drink and have lot of relation too. Their divorced.
At 45, a illness gone down, his husband came back their remarried and she died.
All of her life she was strong and used her emotion for her painting, her live was a balance between win and lose, joy and suffering, life and death.

I think I heard of this movie, I will have to watch it. Did you like it?
ReplyDeleteYes, Henri you should watch it, Frida's life was so dramatic that it is good movie material. Forence we need to hear more about YOU and the movie.
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