Release Date: 6/10/2003 Original Release: 2002 Format: DVD Length: 123 minutes Rating:R (MPAA) Rating Reason: sexuality/nudity and language UPC: 786936180992 Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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. Starting and ending with Frida on her deathbed, the film spans the famous painter's life from her teenage years to her death at the young age of 47. From start to finish, Frida is portrayed as a relentlessly energized, self-righteous, headstrong, assertive woman. At the age of 18, Frida was horribly injured in a bus accident. Though she learned to walk again, she lived her life in physical agony, enduring multiple surgeries, and eventually needing a wheelchair. Yet her condition did not stop her from having an exciting, tumultuous life as the wife of famed artist and womanizer Diego Rivera, who mentored her in her own work and encouraged her passions. Frida had liberal views and socialist politics. She was bisexual and promiscuous. She drank, abused painkillers, sang and danced, and fearlessly poured her pain and beauty into her paintings. Taymor has created a lively and dramatically emotive film with FRIDA, capturing her endearing resiliency with color, music, and, of course, art.
DVD Features
2-Disc Set Region 1 Disc 1: Theatrical Version Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Additional Release Material: Interviews: Salma Hayek - Star Audio Commentary: 1. Julie Taymor - Director 2. Elliot Goldenthal - Composer (On Select Scenes) Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access Disc 2: Supplementary Material Additional Release Material: Documentary: Bringing Frida Kahlo's Life and Art to Film: A Walk Through the Real Locations Interviews: 1. Julie Taymor - Director (by Bill Moyers) 2. Chavela Vargas 3. AFI Q&A With Julie Taymor Bonus Footage: 1. Salma's Recording Session 2. The Brothers Quay Visual FX Piece 3. Amoeba Proteus Visual FX Piece Featurette: 1. THE VOICE OF LILA DOWNS 2. THE VISION OF FRIDA: With Rodrigo Prieto and Julie Taymor 3. THE DESIGN OF FRIDA: With Felipe Fernandez 4. THE MUSIC OF FRIDA: With Elliot Goldenthal and Salma Hayek Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access Text/Photo Galleries: Frida Kahlo Facts
