Frida Films - Frida Kahlo: La cinta que envuelve una bomba (The Ribbon That Ties the Bomb) October 2, 2010

"La cinta que envuelve una bomba" is a Mexican documentary of one of their finest artists, the incomparable Frida Kahlo. In her tumultuous, short life of 47 years, she added her unique and brilliant voice to the art history of Mexico and the world. In an age when a woman artist was rarity, she gained fame for her work in the US and Europe. This film shows many of her better known pieces, as well as some that are seldom seen.

The events of her tragic life, starting with polio as a child, her devastating accident, and what she would call her "other accident," her marriage to Diego Rivera, are well covered with marvelous still photographs and film footage. Directed by Jesus Muñoz Delgado, with narration by Jose Lavat, the voice of Frida is done by Andrea Ferrari, and original music by Eugenio Tussaint. Among the people who are interviewed in this documentary are biographers Martha Zamora and Hayden Herrera, psychologist Anando Almazan, historians Teresa del Conde, and Olivier Debroise, journalist Ana Cecilia Trevino, and painter (and former Khalo student) Arturo Garcia Bustos.

In Spanish with subtitles, with the exception of the excerpts with Herrera, who speaks in English (60 minutes)