Word: kahloã
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...year of break-out roles for actors of mediocre repertoires (just ask Adam Sandler), fits nicely into the role of Kahlo. Her dizzying spurts of emotional vulnerability play surprisingly well, but in other instances, it’s subtlety that she and co-star Alfred Molina (as Kahlo??s infamous husband, Diego Rivera) clearly lack...
...celebrity cameos. One of these is from Edward Norton, who pops up as Nelson Rockefeller in a few scenes, only to serve as a significantly annoying distraction. The other, more problematic, is Geoffrey Rush’s turn as Leon Trotsky, who for a time was a lover of Kahlo??s. More time is devoted to his role than Norton’s, surely, but it’s intensely painful seeing Taymor attempting to inflate his appearance by forcing us to watch Trotsky and Kahlo staring at a beautiful Mexican vista, all while listening to Trotsky...
...trolley crash that renders Kahlo periodically unable to walk is shot and edited with a shocking visceral quality and a brash artistic confidence. Immediately after, Taymor gives us a shamelessly trippy, grotesque animated sequence that quite unsubtly suggests that the remainder of the film will explore the lines between Kahlo??s life and her astounding surrealistic...
What actually follows, unfortunately, is another 90 minutes of derivative dramatic conundrum. Kahlo??s art, which is considerably more passionate than this film is willing to realize, imitated her life in more interesting ways than Taymor shows us. When the paintings are shown on screen, only the most manipulated audience member would not want to be transported to some far-off gallery, where perhaps we can enter the world of Frida Kahlo without the distracting influence of dramatic contrivance...
...honor,” “doubts” and “passion” are strategically placed on the finished product. The over-paintings are always of either a young turbaned man or a woman, whose face and expression are eerily reminiscent of Frida Kahlo??s self-portraits. Yet while the patterns may look pretty, the ultimate effect of the paintings is very unimpressive. The repeated layering of the dots tends to dissolve the bright colors of the bottom pages, and the result is a dull, washed-out background. While well drawn, the watercolor over...
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