Resumo:
This article analyzes the film Frida (2003), directed by Julie Taymor and starred bySalma Hayek, which features the love relationship between the mural artist Diego Rivera and thepainter Frida Khalo. It is not a filmic biography, but focuses on a period of the painter’s life. On theone hand, it presents some comparison with the Mexican movie about the painter, Frida, naturalezaviva (1983), by Paul Leduc, to contrast different views on the events of a life, as to, for example,what concerns sexual politics. On the other hand, the paper explores to what extent the polemicalfilm by Taymor/Hayek is historical, based on reality, or whether it is a sight-and-sound fictionalversion of a written biography.