“Director Paul Leduc has given us an impressionistic telling of the life story of Frida Kahlo-artist, feminist, wealthy Marxist, wife of the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, friend of the exiled Leon Trotsky, and paradigm of courage. The movie begins with Frida's deathbed scene, where she lies in a delirium, feverishly recalling heightened moments of her life-and it is these flashbacks, underscored by her anguished self-portraits, that constitute the bulk of the movie. The film, often shot in the actual habitats of Kahlo and Rivera, consists of one eerily beautiful composition after another....It's also an intensely political movie, showing (Kahlo and Rivera's) connections to the Mexican Revolution, their commitment to Zapata and to Marx....Frida operates on a level qualitatively different from most movies, more visceral, more subliminal, yet at the same time proceeding, somehow, from a greater intellectual grasp of the way things actually are.”