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I recall reading a lot of post acclaiming this movie here in the past and it finally made it to the top of the Netfix queue this weekend.I was surprised at how pedsestrian it was! The story is nothing more than a family drama, a soap-opera disguised as art. It played in a generic linear fashion like a disease-of-the-week TV movie. It seemed so lock-step and rigid. Their dialogue was stiff and written sounding. Real people just don't speak like that.
The dream sequences and animated paintings were trite and just badly done. I mean, a crying painting? Please. For whatever reason, this junk reminded me of Baz Lurhman's godawful movies.
Hayek is cursed with being too attractive to play the role of a disfigured, crippled and generally unattractive woman. She just looked too good, too healthy and unscarred in her nude scenes. The fact that it was her production only shows just how much of a vanity piece it was for her. I found the normally excellent Geoffry Rush and Ed Norton in small supporting roles playing larger than life characters to be surprisingly stilted, stiff and smirky. Terrible direction of great actors. Antonio Banderas was as horrible and Banderas-y as always.
Part of my dislike has to do with the fact that I find both her and Rivera's paintings to be amateurish and heavy handed. I just don't buy into their mystique. Just 2 more examples of where fine art went wrong int he 20th century.
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Haven't seen "Frida," but your critique seemed to hold together in its own way until..."Just 2 more examples of where fine art went wrong int he 20th century."What are your "favorite" two ways that "art went wrong in teh 20th century?" I'd like to have that information for context on the rest of what you have to say.
Sorry, but pending added context you lost your credibility when you got to that phrase in the end. It suggests you can't or don't distinguish between your own taste and aesthetic categoricals.
Now I have to conclude that you could be as tone deaf on "Frida" as you apparently are in your assessment of the history of modern art.
No one says you have to like everything. But being dismissive in that way is just too smug, I fear.
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No, this film has no real " profundness " ok, thatīs true, but still very pleasant, if you dislike the painters as such..why have look at this film anyway?
if you dislike the painters as such..why have look at this film anyway?
Because I like movies. I heard it was a good movie, so I wanted to see it.
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