"Portrait of an Artist: Frida Kahlo" [Documentary] (Video)
This award-winning documentary (Montreal International Festival of Films
– Best Biography of an Artist) provides a stirring look at the life and
times of México’s most famous woman painter, Frida Kahlo. The artist’s
life is eloquently portrayed in the famous “Blue House” outside of
México City, which she shared with her husband, the famous muralist and
painter, Diego Rivera. A near-fatal bus accident, years of traumatic
surgery, and endless heartache left Frida Kahlo devastated,
relentlessly transferring her physical and emotional pain to the
canvas. Readings from her diaries, archival photographs, and film
footage offer an intimate portrait of one of the most astonishing
figures of the 20th century. The film explores Kahlo as the center of
the Mexican Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, and not simply as an
artist, but as a tragic figure, as it follows her painting career, her
growing interest in politics, and her turbulent relationship with her
husband, Diego…
