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Description: Thanks to brilliant.org/TheCynicalHistorian for sponsoring this video. Click the link to get 20% off an annual premium subscription The 2002 film about Frida Kahlo. She’s a fascinating figure, and the movie is ...meh - a bit meandering and disordered, but it somewhat works. Generally you’ll understand the woman herself from this film, though with some serious caveats to that, but honestly, that’s the least interesting thing about her. Let’s get through her biography real quick before we get to the more provocative historiography. ------------------------------------------------------------ See pinned comment and its replies for notes, responses, and errata *Bibliography* Seth Fein, “Film Reviews: Frida,” _American Historical Review_ 108, no. 4 (2003): 1261–63. Margaret A. Lindauer, _Devouring Frida: The Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida Kahlo_ (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1999). Lis Pankl and Kevin Blake, “Made in Her Image: Frida Kahlo as Material Culture,” Material Culture 44, no. 2 (2012): 1-20. Raquel Tibol and Elinor Randall, _Frida Kahlo: An Open Life_ (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993). slate.com/culture/2002/10/does-frida-nail-kahlo-s-life-or-her-art.html theguardian.com/film/2010/jun/17/frida-reel-history ------------------------------------------------------------ Chapters: 0:00 promo 1:39 intro 2:34 reality 6:11 scholarship 9:41 accuracy 10:41 inaccuracy 14:26 outro ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through PATREON: patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or by purchasing MERCH: teespring.com/stores/the-cynical-historian LET'S CONNECT: Twitch: twitch.tv/cynicalhistorian Facebook: facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 Subreddit: reddit.com/r/CynicalHistory Discord: discord.gg/Ukthk4U Twitter: twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ Wiki: Frida is a 2002 American biographical drama film directed by Julie Taymor which depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Frida was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.[2] Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist.[3] She is known for painting about her experience of chronic pain ------------------------------------------------------------ Hashtags: #history #Frida #FridaKahlo #review #BasedOnATrueStory