Frida

Pros: Hayek, Molina, supporting cast, Taymor's direction
Cons: Screenplay is a patchwork

Mexican artist Firda Kahlo was a painter whose spirit was far stronger than her body. Her paintings often spoke of those pains. For her entire adult life, she dealt with physical struggles, which kept her from pursuing her original dream of attending...

Pros: Acting, direction, technical aspects, A LOT OF NUDITY!!!
Cons: Screenplay could have developed a bit more, does not really engage the audience

I have never been much of a fan of biopics. I hold this opinion because biopics usually moves at a ...

Pros: acting, script, visuals, direction
Cons: none

I first heard of Frida Kahlo when I was attending university. A friend of mine, a Chicana with a tremendous sense of her people's history, decked her room out in prints of Frida Kahlo paintings. Kahlo's paintings, in my opinion and with the little I knew...

Pros: Cinematography, Hayek and Molina, score, setting, story.
Cons: Some shallowness in dealing with burning questions of the artist's psyche.

After another year of studio-packaged mega-blockbuster films of little originality and pre-ordained success or failure depending on their marketing budget, Miramax saves the day again with a Christmas season gift via a colorful and invigorating biography...

Pros: Direction by Taymor; the cast; the cinematography; the screenplay
Cons: The film's essence of triumph leaves behind little to no aftertaste

Ah, the "triumph of the human spirit": that age-old storyline that has maintained the utmost healthy pairs of legs to have outrun the artistic test of time. If you think about it, every story we read in books or watch on film carries this particular...

Pros: Great acting, good direction, involving characters and story, a visual treat
Cons: Some themes touched upon needed more exploring

Frida is the biographical story of the life of Mexican artist Frida Khalo (played by Salma Hayek). Frida is the brainchild of Hayek who is said to have spent a decade trying to get the film made. Knowing very little about Khalo and having never seen...

Pros: Excellent cast, flows nicely, great film.
Cons: None

Outline: "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflichingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and...

Pros: Excellent cast, cinematography, editing, wonderful story
Cons: None

I know my review title seems like another of my all too painful puns (heh!) but this time I have an actual basis for it. Really!

You see, after an exciting yet stressful week, I was nearly dragged off to see the gory horror film du jour,...

Pros: The romance. Molina. A few artsy scenes.
Cons: Script. Uneven groove. Blatantly obvious melodrama.

Millions of adolescent American men might flock to Frida to see Salma Hayek topless, but that's as good a reason as any, because nudity is just about the only worthwhile feature of the film. Director Julie Taymor is well-known for producing movies ...

Pros: Julie Taymor's beautiful production
Cons: Much ado about a forgettable artist.

There is an overwhelming sadness in all of Frida Kahlo’s paintings. To stand in front of one is to experience much different emotions than one has when gazing upon the psychotic worlds of Edvard Munch or Francis Bacon. Where Munch and Bacon...

Pros: It's about life - one real situation
Cons: Not enough Ashley Judd :(( I love her.

It always feels great when a bunch of good actors you don’t get to see that often gather in one movie, directed by somebody talented. Expect nominations and awards. Indeed, patience is a virtue in today’s cinema.


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Pros: Vitality of performances; vivid cinematography; arty animation inserts and sex scenes (oh yeah); musical score
Cons: The film's magic is as delicate as butterfly wings; over-analysis could kill it.

Several small, obscure films have been made about the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, but this is the first major production tailored for the English-speaking world. Director Julie Taymor and producer/star Salma Hayek have succeeded in harnessing the...

Pros: great story, great cinematography, and the use of color!
Cons: Lots of sexuality (as if thats a con)

This is one of those, what I call artsy films, usually not appreciated by the common man, no explosi ...

Pros: Hayek's performance, Taymor's marvelous direction. Visuals.
Cons: Missing something... not enough focus, maybe?

Actress Salma Hayek has been trying to get a film about the life of painter Frida Kahlo off the gr ...

Pros: Interesting to a certain degree
Cons: Plays a little like soap opera at times.

Director Julie Taymor (Titus) has fashioned a story that is overflowing with emotions that run the gamut from the exuberance of youth through to the straitjacket of pain that racked Frida for her entire life after a trolley accident she suffered as a...