Streaming Movie Adventures: Frida

...they may take our lives, but they'll never take our FRIDA!
Frida Kahlo's eyes

The 2024 documentary, not the 2002 movie.

I think this would have worked better as a book, where they wouldn’t have been afraid to let Frida Kahlo’s art stand on its own. This documentary decided that nearly every image of her work had to be animated and color graded to match every other image, breaking the composition of everything she made. She complains at one point that a French artist wants to display her work with junk he bought in street markets in Mexico; I wonder how she would have felt about her work in this.

But hey, I got a pretty good poster idea!

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