| Frida [Region 2 Import- Non USA Format] [Region 2] |  | Director: Julie Taymor
Actors: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Antonio Banderas, Valeria Golino
Category: DVD
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Rating:  204 reviews
Sales Rank: 245550
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Audio Description), English (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), German (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 118 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5017188888424
ASIN: B00007KGCH
Theatrical Release Date: March 6, 2003
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Salma Hayek makes up for many bad movies with her fierce performance in this sumptuous film. Hayek plays the Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo, whose tempestuous life with her unfaithful husband, muralist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), drives the story of Frida. Maverick director Julie Taymor (Titus, the Broadway stage production of The Lion King) pulls out a wealth of gorgeous visuals to capture everything from the horrific bus accident that damaged Kahlo's spine to her and Rivera's trip to New York City, where Rivera's political leanings ruptured a commission from the Rockefeller family. Though the script spends too much time telling us how great Frida's painting is (rather than trusting in the power of the images themselves), Taymor's dynamic energy and Kahlo's forceful personality give Frida genuine emotional impact. The superb cast includes Roger Rees, Valeria Golino, Ashley Judd, Geoffrey Rush, Antonio Banderas, and Edward Norton. --Bret Fetzer
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 low and slow. Film is a ZERO soundtrack is GREAT. February 6, 2010
Xagan (Hallandale, Fl. United States)
Odd that the pro review describes Hayak's performance as driving this mess. If it is driven, it is in low rider mode, low and slow. A complete bore. This slow paced stilted account of these two prominent Mexican art figures is a disaster. From most accounts these two were both intricate, interesting and exciting personalities. As presented here, they are neither. Simple, offensive, self indulgent, hyper ego's, is a better description of the portrayals they receive. They may have deserved better. We will never know, based on how they are painted here.
On the bright side, the soundtrack is a delight. Pass on the film and snap up the soundtrack.
 Magnificent Celebration January 10, 2010
D. Lohrey (Baltimore)
This is surely as perfect a celebration of the artisit as is imaginable. It is really so rich, so well acted, so perfect in scope and detail that one feels replenished by the experience, as harrowing as it surely was for the artist herself. Come to think of it, there are few female artists of her stature so it is doubly remarable to be treated to a film about a great artist, a woman, and in the end a richly artistic culture. This film celebrates Mexico, which has as distinct an artistic heritage as any in the world.
 Visually Stunning January 5, 2010
Mark J. Manta (Doylestown, PA)
The story of Frida Kahlo is told with little dialog and mostly vivid scenes of events in her life. It is a biography, but creatively uses her work to tell the story of her tragically short life. Of course, as an art film, it has nothing in the way of suspense or action - but I also read the book. Its the kind of movie that you need to watch more than once. For anyone interested in Frida's work, I highly recommend it.
Love Is Blind September 24, 2009
W. Powell
A wonderful movie about a famed relationship between opposites who were simply meant for each other. If it were a book I'd be writing that I couldn't put it down. The visual treat was just as delicious as the dialogue and the music, not to mention the historical aspect. I was entranced by it all as the movie whisked me away to an earlier time in a place foreign yet familiar.
The love story of Frida and Diego was masterly played by the two main characters. Each was definitely the strength that inspired the other in their art. My only critique of the movie was in having to hear the non-Spanish language cast attempt a Spanish accent when speaking English. Short of using mostly all Spanish actors perhaps this was unavoidable. The accents sounded okay until you heard those of Frida (played by Salma Hayek) or Antonio Banderas's character or any of the native Spanish speaking actors/actresses. It was like tasting honey in your first cup of tea, then having someone add a sugar substitute like sweet and low in your second cup. You still had a sweetness in your brew but the natural sweetener was noticeably missing.
Frida Kahlo, a free thinking woman in love with a free loving man. A must movie for women and men who wonder why they stay in relationships after hurting one another so cruelly. It begs the question, what will you give up for love?
Best movie ever!!!!! August 13, 2009
Bryan L. Ballantyne (San Diego, CA.)
Selma Hayek is awesome as Frida Kahlo in this beautifully told story of this phenomenal artists life. Marrying to her womanizing lover Diego Sanchez really helped fuel the emotional distress that artists require to create with such intensity. As if her damaged physical state wasn't enough, the heart ache of her wandering lover helped push her over the top in my opinion and fueled what became a lifetime of masterpieces.
This story is warm, sad, funny and inspiring and it would seem that Selma had a great deal of respect for the woman she portrays so well in this work of art on film. By far and away the best movie I have seen to date, If the dialogue alone doesn't do it for you then certainly the set of 1930's Mexico City will. Rich and beautiful in all arena's: sound, site, time period and ideological social sub-cultures.
On a scale of 1 - 10 I give this film a 55
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