... images, Frida captures her emotion and her struggle for identity. Her life was overflowing with grief, but her art depicts her rebelliousness and liberated spirit and individualism that, once having caused controversy now represents the inner soul of the modern woman. The story of the film emphasizes the love between Frida and Diego more than anything else. Both of the painters possessed strong communist opinions, involved in protests and parties. This is encapsulated in the film with an incident in which Diego was forced to remove the communist leader, Vladimir Lenin, whom he had painted within a mural task which had been assigned by John D. Rockefeller. When he refuses due to his unwillingness to compromise his artistic integrity, the painting is destroyed. Frida and Diego remained loyal communists till their dying days. Julie Taylor brings Frida's emotional paintings to life through magical realism, with scenes becoming paintings, and ...

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