The tumultuous relationship between celebrated Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and the reckless and sickly artist Frida Kahlo in the 20s and 30s survives despites Rivera's womanizing, Kahlo's bisexuality, their divorce, their rise to prominence and fall in America, and a complex friendship with fugitive Communist Leon Trotsky just prior to his assassination in Mexico.

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Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) is a mischievous and sexually liberated student and aspiring painter in Mexico City when she first…

Salma Hayek gives it her all playing Frida Kahlo, the Mexican artist known for her bisexual appetites, her substance abuse, her back injuries sustained in a bus accident, her stormy marriage to fellow painter Diego Rivera (a scruffy, splendid Alfred Molina), her affair with Leon Trotsky (a pinched Geoffrey Rush) and her refusal to tweeze her eyebrows.

Frida, with a script partly written by Hayek's boyfriend, Edward Norton (who does a cameo as Nelson Rockefeller), crams it all in. That's the…