Frida: Naturaleza viva
Mexico,
1985, 107 min
Shown in 1986
CREDITS
- dir
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Paul Leduc
- prod
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Manuel Barbachano
- scr
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Alejandro Luna
- cam
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Angel Goded
- cast
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Ofelia Medina, Juan Jose Gurrola, Salvador Sanchez
- source
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Azteca Films, L.A.
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COMMENTS
Paul Leduc in person.
OTHER
Andre Breton called her “a bomb disguised as a butterfly.” Frida Kahlo is one of Mexico’s greatest painters and surely one of the greatest women painters of all time. Married to Diego Rivera, an intimate of Trotsky-in-exile, Kahlo was a participant in Mexico’s most committed and passionate period of cultural and political expression. The victim of a childhood spinal injury and countless operations, Kahlo translated to her canvases an interior world of constant physical pain and emotional anguish. Echoing the style of the muralists Kahlo knew so well, director Paul Leduc has created in Frida a mosaic-like portrait in which past and present, memories and dream images, the personal and political combine to evoke the life of one of the most courageous artists of out time. As Frida Kahlo, Ofelia Medina brings an astounding physical resemblance to her role as well as consummate acting skills.
—Tom Luddy
FACTOID #123
San Francisco native Mervyn LeRoy, director of the Hollywood classics Little Caesar and Goldiggers of 1933, was honored with the Festival’s first tribute October 22, 1965.
