Frida

Netflix streaming – they rated it 4.5 stars for me, but only 3.7 for the general audience – “my kind of weird”? Yes, what a great movie this was, I didn’t think I was going to like it at all, but Netflix is almost never wrong with my ratings. I’m going to give it 5 stars. Salma Hayek was wonderful in this movie, as was Alfred Molina as Diego Rivera. A number of big-name stars had shorter roles, and in some cases weren’t easy to recognize: Ashley Judd, Edward Norton, Antonio Banderas, and Geoffrey Rush. This movie had a great tone to it, the music added a lot, the special-effects scenes of paintings, the costuming – it all came together to make this a masterpiece.

Frida movie poster

What an amazing life this woman had.I wasn’t very familiar with her work at all, beyond perhaps a couple of the monobrow self-portraits, but the paintings they showed in the movie were quite strange and interesting, and made perfect sense in the context of her life, as we see as the movie moves along. Notice in the poster how she has skulls for earrings? A nice touch that hints at the strangeness always present in this delightful and touching movie.

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