Finally saw Frida

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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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Topic - Finally saw Frida - Troy 15:53:28 11/03/03 (3)

I was with you until... - EBerlin 20:18:25 11/10/03 (0)

Re: That is what I call " bias "..... - patrickU 23:54:59 11/03/03 (1)

Re: That is what I call " bias "..... - Troy 09:42:32 11/04/03 (0)

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