Frida
2002movie
Julie Taymor's biographical film Frida (2002), based on the life of the Mexican modernist painter, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), interrogates the ways Kahlo's art was informed by her life experience. 1 At the time Frida was released, the film received mixed reviews. Katie Clifford wrote that the movie focused "on the artist as a victim of circumstance rather than portraying her as an individual with agency"; the artist's contribution to artistic and political discourse was omitted (61).
Frida (2002) goes out of its way to portray the life of now widely known and recognized painter and feminist, Frida Kahlo, with the portrayal of critical and pivotal events of her life while at the same time incorporating her specific artistic style-- magical realism.
