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Frida Kahlo [VHS]

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This documentary presents some of the most magnificent work done in the 20th Century. Frida Kahlo's exrtraordinary paintings are shown beautifully here, along with fascinating photographs and excerpts from her diary. There are many paintings not seen very often, and it also shows her home of 25 years in Mexico City, which she shared with her husband Diego Rivera, now known as the Museo Frida Kahlo.

Throughout her life of emotional and physical pain, she painted, and expressed those feelings through her art with power and poetic vision...she pierces our hearts with joy and sadness with every piece.

This brilliant film by Eila Hershon, Roberto Guerra and Wibke Von Bonin, is narrated by Sada Thompson with commentary written by Hayden Herrera, who wrote her excellent biography. The music is also enjoyable though not intrusive, by the Ballet Folclorico National Aztlan, and the tape is 62 minutes long.

Her last painting in 1954, a luscious still life of watermelons, has inscribed on it in large letters, "VIVA LA VIDA "... so fitting, that this should be her last painting, for an artist who's work will no doubt survive many centuries.

Wonder and admiration for Frieda Kahlo is brought to life through the narrative and visual presentation of her life's work, where she expressed the joy, pain and sorrow of a woman-painter who happened to live ahead of her time. There is a feeling that one is perhaps a part of Ms. Kahlo's exciting, yet tormented existence. Impressive.