Saturday 23 July 2005, 19.00
and Friday 19 August 2005, 19.00

Paul Leduc, Mexico 1984, 108’, subs

This fictionalised documentary investigates the agonies and ecstasies that punctuated, and literally punctured, Frida Kahlo’s life, in a series of dramatised flashbacks as she lies on her deathbed. Leduc’s approach is painstakingly detailed, choosing an actress with an uncanny resemblance to the artist, and using Kahlo’s own clothes, bed and even paintings as props. Through the artist’s eyes we experience the tortures and mutilations her body suffered, ultimately tempered and overcome by her passions for Diego Rivera and Leon Trotsky, for Mexico itself and the communist cause, and most of all for her work.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended

    

This event is related to the Frida Kahlo exhibition