Frida

I recently, through a friend on facebook, discovered Lila Downs, who I can't stop listening to. Googling her, it turns out her career really took off after she sang in the movie Frida. Which then was on my mind, so I watched it tonight on Watch Instantly.

Directed by Julie Taymor, who gets so much right but rarely fully hits the mark, Frida seems to me to be true to the spirit of Kahlo's paintings. That is, something about Taymor's artistic decisions resonated with my experience and memory of the paintings I've seen.

The movie was very focused on the relationship between Kahlo and Diego, and it wasn't really that interesting. In general I'm not a fan of biopics, but this one was good enough, as far as they go.