'I paint myself because that's who I know the best,' the late Mexican artist once wrote. So it's fitting that a new documentary about Kahlo's life tells her story using her own words and art.
"I paint myself because that's who I know the best," the late Mexican artist once wrote. So it's fitting that a new documentary about Kahlo's life tells her story using her own words and art.A new documentary about Frida Kahlo's life, now streaming on Amazon Prime, tells her story using her own words and art.A new documentary about Frida Kahlo's life, now streaming on Amazon Prime, tells her story using her own words and art.
Gutiérrez says she wanted to get inside Kahlo's head."What was she thinking? what was she feeling? I felt that as a Latina, somebody that grew up in Latin America, there was this connection I have with the world that created Frida." That included transcripts of interviews with people who knew Kahlo. One of the film's archivists, Gabriel Rivera, also scoured university libraries, museums and private collections finding photos and handwritten messages.
The film includes the words written by or about Kahlo's contemporaries, including Diego Rivera, who she married twice, her friends such as surrealist André Breton and her lovers such as Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky.Gabriel Rivera says they tried to follow any lead, including a tip about some footage of Kahlo dancing in the streets of New York City with a rose stem gripped in her mouth.
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