The incredible true story of 20th-century Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), "Frida" is told from the artist's own perspective. Voiced by Fernanda Echeverría del Rivero as Kahlo, the film is ...
Frida Kahlo's distinct image and iconic paintings are omnipresent art symbols recognizable by most people even 70 years after her death, creating a false sense that everything there is to say about ...
For their Oscar-contending documentary Frida, director Carla Gutiérrez, producer Katia Maguire and team conducted extraordinarily detailed research into artist Frida Kahlo, a quest that extended from ...
"I paint myself because that's who I know the best," the late Mexican artist Frida Kahlo once wrote in her illustrated diary. So it's fitting that a new documentary about Kahlo's life, now streaming ...
Oftentimes, documentaries stand too far away from their subjects so the degrees of separation that come with time aren’t always a negative for the subgenre, but there’s no denying the magic that comes ...
Carla Gutierrez's documentary offers a solid introduction to the legendary Mexican painter, but Kahlo's words are often showcased at the expense of her art. With the global cultural intelligentsia ...