In her own time and own words, Frida Kahlo endured and painted “with the sole conviction to give myself pleasure, and the power to make a living with my trade.”
The intimate diary reflections of Frida Kahlo become part of the overall documentary mosaic in “Frida,” now streaming on Prime Video. Now on Prime Video, the densely embroidered documentary “Frida” pulls from many sources: home movies, archival footage, photographs, letters, its subject’s intimate diary, and reminiscence from friends and lovers of Frida Kahlo, Mexican artist and, later, global museum gift shop merchandise titan.
Chronologically, “Frida” begins in 1910, three years after her birth in Mexico City. Her defining, though not creatively limiting, catastrophe came at age 18: the now-infamous trolley crash that sent a metal rod through Kahlo’s midsection, shattering her pelvis and causing lifelong anguish. First-hand accounts of the accident, heard in voiceover, remain vividly awful. Frida “screamed so loud,” her fellow art student friend remembers, “you couldn’t hear the ambulance’s siren.
Marrying — twice — the celebrated muralist Diego Rivera, Kahlo learned to navigate his ego, society’s gender biases and her imaginative vision of how her autobiography, as she lived it, could will her canvases into being, and with a beating, loving heart. Life with Rivera defied peace, or stability. Her painting “Memory, the Heart” found Kahlo exploring her emotional isolation between their two marriages.
“Frida” captures the media stardom, while also keeping in mind they were ordinary humans undergoing extraordinary things. Kahlo loved cutting through pretense. “A bunch of idiots who get excited over the dumbest things,” she wrote in her diary of the Manhattan swells, in love with their formal wear. “I want to run and run until I get to Mexico.”
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