Biopics aren't and will never be my piece of cake. Sure, The Pianist is one of my favorite films, i also liked a bit Schindler's List. Rare exceptions. But this one is just like 90% of the bios produced: tedious and uninteresting. Sure she was perhaps a woman with will to life, she had his physical obstacles and tried to win them and stuff, but there is really nothing more in the film.
Talking about the plot, i have major problems with the fact that it has little to none focus for the secondary characters, which clearly would be interesting aces if earned a fair amount of screen time to them. The focus always being on Frida really don't helped this film, since that she was either drinking and yelling like crazy or just painting. And that is also my point:The story has no conflicts besides the traditional husband- wive discussion.
The relationship of Frida with Trotski is either pointless or bad explored, because it just added useless running time to film. Also, some supposed jokes aren't funny or what's ever. This film tried to expand other limits beyond the melodrama and it clearly failed. But OK, i kinda liked to see the special cameos of Antonio Banderas and Edward Norton, which instantly took this film out of the stagnation and for once brought my interest in it.
The cinematography is very nice, the art direction is terrific and got some inspirations from the Spanish paintings and their use of vivid colors in the characters, to contrast with a more neutral ambient. The music used in the film is bad, definitely not a fan. The editing was OK, it wouldn't help that much in this film anyways unless if they had cut lots of pointless scenes from it.
The acting by Salma Hayek was indeed good, not impressive, but she did her job fine. She really put effort in her interpretation work of Frida. Deserved Oscar nomination.
I wouldn't recommend it. A search in Wikipedia is definitely faster and more interesting.6.2/10
Talking about the plot, i have major problems with the fact that it has little to none focus for the secondary characters, which clearly would be interesting aces if earned a fair amount of screen time to them. The focus always being on Frida really don't helped this film, since that she was either drinking and yelling like crazy or just painting. And that is also my point:The story has no conflicts besides the traditional husband- wive discussion.
The relationship of Frida with Trotski is either pointless or bad explored, because it just added useless running time to film. Also, some supposed jokes aren't funny or what's ever. This film tried to expand other limits beyond the melodrama and it clearly failed. But OK, i kinda liked to see the special cameos of Antonio Banderas and Edward Norton, which instantly took this film out of the stagnation and for once brought my interest in it.
The cinematography is very nice, the art direction is terrific and got some inspirations from the Spanish paintings and their use of vivid colors in the characters, to contrast with a more neutral ambient. The music used in the film is bad, definitely not a fan. The editing was OK, it wouldn't help that much in this film anyways unless if they had cut lots of pointless scenes from it.
The acting by Salma Hayek was indeed good, not impressive, but she did her job fine. She really put effort in her interpretation work of Frida. Deserved Oscar nomination.
I wouldn't recommend it. A search in Wikipedia is definitely faster and more interesting.6.2/10