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VIDEO RELEASE
Aug 19, 2003 (DVD)
NUMBERS
Box Office: $25,681,203
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CONSENSUS
Frida is a passionate, visually striking biopic about the larger-than-life artist.
CAST & CREW
Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Mia Maestro
Directed by Julie Taymor
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SYNOPSIS
Brilliant colors that bring Frida Kahlo's Mexico City to vibrant life combine with a captivating performance by Salma Hayek to make director Julie Taymor's FRIDA a fascinating film. more...
MPAA RATING
R, sexuality/nudity and language
RUNTIME
2 hours, 2 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Oct 25, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Miramax Films
GENRE
Dramas, Biography, Romance, Historical, Artists, Painters, Mexican
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Frida Site
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TRAILER & MEDIA
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NEWS ARTICLES
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 "Hayek is stunning as Frida and...a star-making project."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
"Salma goes native and she's never been better in this colorful bio-pic of a Mexican icon."
-- Boo Allen, DENTON RECORD CHRONICLE (TX)
"Nicely acted and painted with an energetic pace; "Frida" is mostly a love story with a backdrop of art and politics."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"[Hayek] throws herself into this dream Hispanic role with a teeth-clenching gusto, she strikes a potent chemistry with Molina and she gradually makes us believe she is Kahlo."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"[Taymor] utilizes the idea of making Kahlo's art a living, breathing part of the movie, often catapulting the artist into her own work. This isn't a new idea. It's been done before but never so vividly or with so much passion."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"Vividly conveys the passion, creativity, and fearlessness of one of Mexico's most colorful and controversial artists -- a captivating drama that will speak to the nonconformist in us all."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"Frida isn't that much different from many a Hollywood romance. What sets it apart is the vision that Taymor, the avant garde director of Broadway's The Lion King and the film Titus, brings."
-- Robert W. Butler, KANSAS CITY STAR
 "Less worrying about covering all the drama in Frida's life and more time spent exploring her process of turning pain into art would have made this a superior movie."
-- Jeffrey Chen, WINDOW TO THE MOVIES
"gorgeous to look at but emotionally flat"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"There are plenty of scenes in Frida that do work, but rarely do they involve the title character herself."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Its essence seems to be genuinely suggestive of an artist whose canvas was her life and vice versa."
-- Duane Dudek, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"Doesn't hang together as a love story, but connects as a portrait of one woman's strength and determination in the face of daunting odds."
-- Marshall Fine, JOURNAL NEWS
"Though Frida is easier to swallow than Julie Taymor's preposterous Titus, the eye candy here lacks considerable brio."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
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"La de Salma es una versión de Frida superficial, preciosista y sin ningún contenido."
-- Jorge Avila Andrade, MOVIOLA
"...fuses the events of her life with the imagery in her paintings so vividly that the artist’s work may take on a striking new significance for anyone who sees the film."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"...you can be forgiven for realizing that you've spent the past 20 minutes looking at your watch and waiting for Frida to just die already."
-- Sean Burns, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
"A technical triumph and an extraordinary bore."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"Certainly beautiful to look at, but its not very informative about its titular character and no more challenging than your average television biopic."
-- Erik Childress, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"“Frida” is a good film that has some brilliant moments of artistry throughout."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"The film has a terrific look and Salma Hayek has a feel for the character at all stages of her life."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"Visually engrossing, seldom hammy, honorably Mexican and burns its Kahlories with conviction."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"Frida's artistic brilliance is undeniable -- it's among the most breathtakingly designed films I've ever seen."
-- Jack Garner, ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
"There are moments in this account of the life of artist Frida Kahlo that are among cinema's finest this year. Unfortunately, they're sandwiched in between the most impossibly dry account of Kahlo's life imaginable."
-- Ken Hanke, MOUNTAIN XPRESS (ASHEVILLE, NC)
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FRESH 65%
Avg. Rating: 7.1/10 |
"Frida is certainly no disaster, but neither is it the Kahlo movie Frida fans have been looking for."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"It's just disappointingly superficial -- a movie that has all the elements necessary to be a fascinating, involving character study, but never does more than scratch the surface."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"Meticulously mounted, exasperatingly well-behaved film, which ticks off Kahlo's lifetime milestones with the dutiful precision of a tax accountant."
-- Manohla Dargis, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"At its best, this is grand-scale moviemaking for a larger-than-life figure, an artist who has been awarded mythic status in contemporary culture."
-- Robert Denerstein, DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
"Sometimes we feel as if the film careens from one colorful event to another without respite, but sometimes it must have seemed to Frida Kahlo as if her life did, too."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Brilliantly captures the brightness of the light, the intensity of the colors and the omnipresence of Mexican motifs that informed Kahlo's art."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
"[Hayek] doesn't just act Frida, she inhabits her."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"A biopic of an artist that actually looks artistic."
-- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL
"A domestic melodrama with weak dialogue and biopic cliches."
-- Edward Guthmann, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"As a kind of colorful, dramatized PBS program, Frida gets the job done. But, for that, why not watch a documentary?"
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
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"The art direction and special effects are remarkable throughout, and in a number of scenes paintings and real-life blend seamlessly. . . . Frida may not be the ultimate artist biography, but it is art in its own right."
-- Forrest Hartman, RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Frida" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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