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Frida Kahlo: Diego Rivera
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Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) is an tempestuous teenager, when she suffers a bus accident in Mexico. Her column and leg have multiples fractures and she is impaled by a metal bar. Her father and mother spend all the money they have in surgeries and treatments, and in the end... due to her will and strength, she walks again. Frida shows her paintings to the famous painter, intellectual and communist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina) to criticize them. He finds them excellent and they become friend, lovers and get married to each other. Diego is very unfaithful to her and has many night stands with his models, but when he has an affair with Frida's sister Cristina, their marriage ends and they divorce.
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Frida Kahlo was the daughter of a Hungarian Jew and Mexican Indian. Her family was wealthy and sent her to the country's finest university in Mexico City. However, she championed the poor people and eventually joined the Communist Party. When Kahlo met and married Diego Rivera, he was already famous for painting tremendous murals about political subjects on the city's public buildings. She had learned to paint while recuperating from her accident. But Rivera ... encouraged Kahlo to express her radical ideas and powerful feelings for the Mexican Indians through her art.
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Hayek, who has been shepherding Frida Kahlo through her Ventanarosa shingle, has a script by Rodrigo Garcia (Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her). The two projects are similar in that both focus on Kahlo's relationship with Rivera and their place in high society in Mexico.
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After her recovery, Frida Kahlo started hanging out with a group of Mexican artists who introduced her to well-known Mexican muralist, Diego Rivera. Rivera immediately recognized her talent and encouraged her to continue painting. In August of 1929, Rivera and Frida Kahlo got married, but their relationship, was a little messed up - they both had a lot of affairs. Frida was romantically linked with tons of movie stars, artists, and politicians from all over the world.
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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are known world-wide for their contributions to the evolution of art. Both artists, although possessing completely different styles, became two of Mexico’s most famous people and in turn revolutionized the world of art. This dynamic pair was not only known for their talent and vision, but ... for their stormy love affair that would last over thirty years. Theirs was a love inspired by mutual beliefs and passions. However, often throughout the course of their turbulent relationship, they were viewed as immature school children displaying bouts of jealousy and anger. Despite their problems, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera overcame the obstacles and their love proved enduring.
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Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Mexico City. Her real name was Magdalena Carmen Frida Calderon; she was the daughter of a German Jewish father and a Mexican mother. She lived her adult life in the shadow of her husband, Diego Rivera, the muralist who was a Mexican national hero. She had known him since childhood and when he divorced his second wife, they embarked on a violent courtship.
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