Whenever I go to eat at Mamacita (famous Mexican restaurant in Via Pre), I am always fascinated by the photographs of the paintings of Frida Kahlo. I had already seen this movie when it was released, I was really impressed by the private life so full of suffering of a painter. Yesterday I saw my cousin's house.
briefly knew his paintings, so raw and honest, his face shown in many self-portraits, with eyebrows that both sets it apart, but the film again reminded me that Frida was not just the most famous Mexican painter, but also one fighter, political activist, a pioneer of feminism. The film traces
the life of the painter (played by Salma Hayek, also producer of the film) on the bus accident in 18 years: from that moment on, begin to love Frida painting, painting constantly bedridden for months because of painful and endless operations, which destroyed most of the incident itself. In parallel, knowledge, and then love for Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), one of the most successful and admired painters of that period, a large man of 150 pounds, pluridivorziato, womanizer and nearly twenty years older than her. Union difficult, because of the continuous betrayal of him, that Frida bears a heavy heart, until he discovers the relationship between Diego and his sister Christina (Mia Maestro), and decides to divorce, to return to him a year later, aware of the strong bond that unites them too. She, too, however, perhaps to get even with Diego, he became a sfliza lovers, men and women (mostly lovers also her husband). I did not remember that it was also the lover of Trotsky, though years later was suspected of the murder with her husband Diego. A life full of extraordinary meetings, Picasso, Nelson Rockefeller, Breton, Eisentstein, but marked by the profound suffering that has accompanied her until her death at age 47. A suffering that is found in its production: the obsessive relationship with his broken body, the pains and disappointments Diego, desire, never realized, to have a child by the man she loves.
Bravissima Salma Hayek, so that Kahlo's niece gave her a necklace that belonged to the painter, the cool clothes and hairstyles of Frida, taken by the Mexican folk culture, wide and long skirts and hair braided with colorful ribbons. Oscar and BAFTA for Best Costume Design.
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