MOVIE · 2002

Frida

DramaRomance123 min

After a life-changing accident leaves her in constant pain, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo turns injury, desire, and a turbulent marriage into the raw material for her work. Salma Hayek is Frida, tracing Kahlo from her early recovery into an intense partnership with muralist Diego Rivera. Alfred Molina’s Rivera is both collaborator and complication as the film follows their marriage, artistic ambitions, and overlapping affairs. Moving between Mexico and the United States, the story centers on how Kahlo’s private life and physical suffering fed the paintings that made her a defining artist.