The production was to be based on Martha Zamora’s Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish and to star Raul Julia and Jennifer Lopez however, when the film was to begin production in 2001, Julia had died and Lopez left due to other film commitments. According to a LAT article, Venezuelan director Betty Kaplan also had plans to make a film based on Kahlo, starring Edward James Olmos.Īnother version was slated to begin under the direction of Latin American Luis Valdez entitled Frida and Diego. The Aug 2002 HR article states that producer Jan Rosenthal and actor Robert De Niro considered making a version. Musician and actress Madonna approached HBO about joining her project with Hardin’s and, according to a The Times (London) article, had lined up Marlon Brando to star as Rivera. The Aug 2002 HR article states that Rodrigo Garcia, son of Nobel prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez, worked on the script.īy the early 1990s, several other companies were interested in producing television and feature-film versions of Kahlo’s story.
When HBO agreed to make the film for cable television in 1994, Mexican director Roberto Sneider, producer Sarah Green and, according to a Screen International article, producer Lizz Speed, joined the team.
According to an Aug 2002 HR article, in 1988 film producer Nancy Hardin purchased the rights to the book. to the whole world.”įrida is based on the 1983 novel Frida, a Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera. Her work is destined to be multiplied by reproductions and will speak. One year before Kahlo’s death, Rivera lauded his wife’s work in an interview, stating, "Kahlo is the greatest Mexican painter. During their marriage the couple socialized with many world-renowned personalities, including Communist Leon Trotsky, who immigrated to Mexico in 1937 and, as depicted in the film, was assassinated in 1940 surrealist André Breton photographer Tina Modotti singer Josephine Baker, although the character is called "Paris chanteuse" in credits, and others. The couple’s studios were made into the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Studio-House Museum, where many of their works are on display. The couple’s studios were made into the Diego Rivera and. As depicted in the film, Diego’s mural for the Rockefeller Center lobby was destroyed in 1934 when Rivera refused to remove its portrait of Lenin. While Rivera enjoyed an international art career through commissioned murals, Kahlo continued to create intensively autobiographical paintings and became world renowned several decades after her death. She met Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) in 1928, married him the next year, divorced him in 1939 and remarried him in 1940. After her initial recovery, Kahlo began to paint. At age eighteen she was involved in a bus accident that left her with chronic health problems and caused her to endure over thirty operations in her lifetime. In the opening credits nine principal actors are listed beginning with Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina however, in the film’s closing credits the cast is listed in order of appearance.Īs portrayed in the film, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) grew up in Mexico City in her family home, Casa Azul. Some passages of Frida’s dialogue in the film and quoted in the above summary were taken from Kahlo’s own diaries and interviews. During the beginning of the New York sequence in the film, Alfred Molina’s voice narrates the highlights of their stay. Salma Hayek, as “Frida,” provides voice-over narration at various points in the film. She is accompanied by her sister Cristina, in a foretelling of the trip shown at the close of the film that the artist makes to her solo exhibition in 1953. Santa Lucia, contest 9 12-2003, par Cecchi Pietro (Italy)Ġ53 - SAINT-MICHEL NOTRE DAME AUX HEURES DE POINTE.The film opens with a scene of Frida Kahlo being carried in her bed out of her house and onto the bed of a truck. Siciliano, contest 16 10-2006, par Cecchi Pietro (Italy) Scriabin etude 1, contest 11 03-2004, par Cecchi Pietro (Italy) SonateAutomnePCecchi, contest 17 04-2007, par Cecchi Pietro (Italy) SECUENCIAS - N+ 4 (Para Conjunto Instrumental) Op. SECUENCIAS - N+ 5 (Para Coro e Instrumentos) Op. SUBLIMACION - Para Coro, Organo y Orquesta Sinfónica) Op. SECUENCIAS - N+ 7 (Para Conjunto Instrumental) Op. SECUENCIAS - N+ 1 (Para Conjunto Instrumental) Op. SECUENCIAS - N+ 2 (Para Conjunto Instrumental) Op. SECUENCIAS - N+ 3 (Para Conjunto Instrumental) Op. SECUENCIAS - N+ 6 (Para Conjunto Instrumental) Op.
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