Another view of the perilous life of the great Mexican
painter, one version of whose biography was captured in
Julie Taymor’s 2002 film. Under the cloak of immense love
professed by and for her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera, Frida
seeks various forms of
oblivion. Her body battered by
accident, her love tattered by infidelity, her immense
desire to live contrast and afford testimony to her
painting, both intimate and universal; strong images
enveloped in superb Mexican music.