เรื่องเล่าชีวิตของจิตรกรหญิงผู้โด่งดังในเม็กซิโกระหว่างปี 1907-1954 นาม ฟรีด้า คาห์โล (ซัลม่า ฮาเย็ก)ที่เจาะลึกถึงชีวิตรักของเธอที่มีต่อสามี ดิเอโก้ ริเวียร่า (อัลเฟรด โมลิน่า)กับรังรักของพวกเขาในสังคมของชาวเม็กซิกันสมัยก่อน รวมถึงความข้องเกี่ยวกับศิลปินดังอย่าง เดวิด ซิเกวียรอส (แอนโตนิโอ แบนเดอราส)และตากล้องชาวอิตาเลียน ทีน่า โมด็อตติ (แอชลีย์ จัดจ์) และการเดินทางของจิตรกรสองสามีภรรยาสู่อเมริกา เมื่อดิเอโก้ได้รับเชิญให้ไปทำงานกับมหาเศรษฐีก้องโลก เนลสัน ร็อคกี้ เฟลเลอร์
Frida begins with the traumatic accident Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) suffered at the age of 18 when a car trolley collided with a bus she was riding. She is impaled by a metal pole and the injuries she sustained plague her for the rest of her life. To help her through convalescence, her father brings her a canvas upon which to start painting. Throughout the film, a scene starts as a painting, then slowly dissolves into alive-action scene with actors.
Frida also details the artist's dysfunctional relationship with the muralist Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina). When Rivera proposes to Kahlo, she tells him she expects from him loyalty if not fidelity. Diego's appraisal of her painting ability is one of the reasons that she continues to paint. Throughout the marriage, Rivera cheats on her with a wide array of women, while the bisexual Kahlo takes on male and female lovers.
The two travel to New York City so that he may paint the mural Man at the Crossroads at the Rockefeller Center. While in the United States, Kahlo suffers a miscarriage, and her mother dies in Mexico. Rivera refuses to compromise his communist vision of the work to the needs of the patron, Nelson Rockefeller (Edward Norton); as a result, the mural is destroyed. The pair return to Mexico, with Rivera the more reluctant of the two.
Kahlo's sister Cristina moves in with the two at their San Ángel studio home to work as Rivera's assistant. Soon afterward, Kahlo discovers that Rivera is having an affair with her sister. She leaves him, and subsequently sinks into alcoholism. The couple reunite when he asks her to welcome and house Leon Trotsky (Geoffrey Rush), who has been granted political asylum in Mexico. She and Trotsky begin an affair, which forces the married Trotsky to leave the safety of his Coyoacán home.
Kahlo leaves for Paris after Diego realizes she was unfaithful to him with Trotsky. When she returns to Mexico, he asks for a divorce. Soon afterwards, Trotsky is murdered in Mexico City. Rivera is temporarily a suspect, and Kahlo is incarcerated in his place when he is not found. Rivera helps get her released.
Kahlo has her toes removed when they become gangrenous. Rivera asks her to remarry him, and she agrees. Her health worsens, including the amputation of a leg, and she ultimately dies after finally having a solo exhibition of her paintings in Mexico.
(Source : Wikipedia)
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