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Frida - DVD

SKU: 5479635 | Release Date: 6/10/2003

Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Violence, Nudity, Adult Language

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Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Violence, Nudity, Adult Language
Format: DVD
Theatrical Release: 2002
Length: 123 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre: General Dramas
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Synopsis

After being attached to a number of actors, directors, and producers, this long-gestating biography of one of Mexico's most prominent, iconoclastic painters reaches the screen under the guiding hand of producer/star Salma Hayek. Hayek ages some 30 years onscreen as she charts Frida Kahlo's life from feisty schoolgirl to Diego Rivera prot�g�e to world-renowned artist in her own right. Frida details Kahlo's affluent upbringing in Mexico City, and her nurturing relationship with her traditional mother (Patricia Reyes Spindola) and philosophical father (Roger Rees). Having already suffered the crippling effects of polio, Kahlo sustains further injuries when a city bus accident nearly ends her life. But in her bed-ridden state, the young artist produces dozens upon dozens of pieces; when she recovers, she presents them to the legendary -- and legendarily temperamental -- Rivera (Alfred Molina), who takes her under his wing as an artist, a political revolutionary, and, inevitably, a lover. But their relationship is fraught with trouble, as the philandering Rivera traverses the globe painting murals, and Kahlo languishes in obscurity, longing to make her mark on her own. Frida was directed by Julie Taymor, whose Broadway production of The Lion King won her international acclaim. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

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Languages/Sound

Eng/Fre

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV

Subtitle Languages

Spa

Additional Features

cc Salma Hayek conversation Julie Taymor feature commentary Elliot Goldenthal selected-scenes commentary AFI Julie Taymor Q & A Bill Moyers' Julie Taymor interview Chavela Vargas interview The vision, design, and music of Frida Salma Hayek's recording sessions Real locations of Frida Kahlo's life & art Portrait of an artist 2 visual effects pieces: "Amoeba Proteus" and "The Brothers Quay" Frida Kahlo facts The voice of Lila Downs French language track Spanish subtitles Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound Widescreen version enhanced for 16 x 9 TVs

Chapters

Side #1 -- Feature
1. Memories
2. "I Always Wanted a Son"
3. The Accident
4. Plans for Recovery
5. Diego's Compliments
6. Another Pretty Girl
7. "Comrades, Colleagues and Friends"
8. Diego and Frida
9. Diego's Ways
10. More Affection in a Handshake
11. The Invasion of Gringo-landia
12. Miracles and Tragedy
13. The Price of Integrity
14. Portrait With Cropped Hair
15. Offering Asylum
16. Alone in Pain
17. Without Loyalty
18. From France
19. Imprisoned
20. Broken Column
21. To Frida!
22. Burn it Blue

Cast

Antonio Banderas - David Alfaro Siqueiros
Ashley Judd - Tina Modotti
Patricia Reyes Spindola - Matilde Kahlo
Edward Norton - Nelson Rockefeller
Alfred Molina - Diego Rivera
Roger Rees - Guillermo Kahlo
Diego Luna - Alejandro Gomez Arias
Mia Maestro - Cristina Kahlo
Valeria Golino - Lupe Marin
Margarita Sanz - Natalia Trotsky
Geoffrey Rush - Leon Trotsky
Salma Hayek - Frida Kahlo
Saffron Burrows - Gracie
M�a Maestro - Cristina Kahlo

Crew

Screenwriter: Gregory Nava ,Clancy Sigal
Co-producer: Anne Ruark
Executive Producer: Jill Sobel Messick
Screenwriter: Anna Thomas
Director: Julie Taymor
Costume Designer: Julie Weiss
Producer: Jay Polstein
Executive Producer: Amy Slotnick
Producer: Roberto Sneider ,Lizz Speed ,Nancy Hardin ,Lindsay Flickinger
Executive Producer: Mark Gill
Screenwriter: Diane Lake
Sound Mixer: Santiago Nunez
Visual Effects: Amoeba Proteus
Executive Producer: Mark Amin
Editor: Fran�oise Bonnot
Producer: Sarah Green
Composer (Music Score): Elliot Goldenthal
Executive Producer: Brian Gibson
Screenwriter: Rodrigo Garcia
Producer: Salma Hayek
Production Designer: Felipe Fernandez del Paso
Cinematographer: Rodrigo Prieto
Art Director: Bernardo Trujillo
Screenwriter: Rodrigo Garc�a
Makeup: John Jackson [mu] ,Regina Reyes
Book Author: Hayden Herrera
Makeup: John Jackson
Sound Mixer: Santiago N��ez Rojo
Hair Styles: Beatrice De Alba
Set Decorator: Hannia Robledo
Co-producer: Ann Ruark

Frida: AMG Review
Michael Hastings , AMG

The life of an uncompromising, iconoclastic artist has never seemed as rote and inevitable as it does in Julie Taymor's Frida, an intermittently engaging but wholly ordinary biography that wouldn't be out of place premiering on a basic-cable channel. Ticking off the events in Kahlo's life like a grade-school filmstrip, Frida's screenplay -- credited to no less than four writers, not including the purported rewrites from Ed Norton -- is full of clumsy passage-of-time indicators and halting, expository dialogue. Luckily, the performers manage to bring it alive somewhat: Though notably lacking in the kind of mythic swagger Kahlo requires, Salma Hayek digs into her long-gestating "role of a lifetime" with vigor. Better yet is Alfred Molina's Diego Rivera, who threatens to swallow the movie whole (both figuratively and literally). To her credit, Taymor attempts to infuse Frida with the kind of broad, expressionistic strokes she lent 2000's Titus -- the movie is nothing if not lush. Cinematographer Rodrigo Pietra renders Mexico as a paradise of reds, blues, and greens, playing up the contrasts between Kahlo's homeland and the steely, blue-gray New York sequences. But however brilliant they often are, Taymor's directorial flourishes are just that, and Frida -- which by all accounts could've been as daring as Vincent and Theo or Before Night Falls -- never rises above standard bio-pic fare. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

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