Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated:
1
00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,280
It is certain that
they are going to amputate my right leg.
2
00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:32,840
Details I don't know much
but the opinions are reliable.
3
00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:40,840
I'm worried.
4
00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:45,360
But at the same time
I feel it could be a relief.
5
00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,600
Everybody knows
Frida Kahlo.
6
00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:41,960
An artist, an icon,...
7
00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:47,320
..a woman, a wife,
a saint, a martyr.
8
00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:51,240
She has become a symbol, an ideal,...
9
00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:54,840
..but there is so much more to her story.
10
00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,360
Frida Kahlo was born,
lived and died in the Casa Azul.
11
00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:54,080
She would go back there, it was her home,
her intimate world, her universe.
12
00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,360
She even depicted it
in several of her paintings.
13
00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:08,120
When I was asked
...
14
00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:12,200
.."What can I do? Everything has already
been said, and written about Frida."
15
00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,120
"Many books have been published..."
16
00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:21,960
"I don't know what to do here."
I really didn't know.
17
00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:31,320
The trunks had been sealed
for 50 years.
18
00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:37,280
The Museum technical committee
asked me to open those places,...
19
00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,160
..and my team and I did so,...
20
00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,920
..uncovering wonders
that changed Frida's story.
21
00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:51,800
It was not badly written,
but the nuances were missing.
22
00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:58,240
When we started opening
all the boxes and trunks I felt like I was...
23
00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,000
I felt like...
24
00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,280
I had mixed feelings.
25
00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:09,200
Analyzing those objects
meant invading her privacy,...
26
00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:11,840
..and that's hard,
nobody wants to do that.
27
00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:15,160
I think that...
28
00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:22,480
Those of us who work there have
learnt what art is through Frida.
29
00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:29,080
When you work
so close to an artist...
30
00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:35,080
..you discover things
books don't teach.
31
00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,800
There's
no better way to understand Frida Kahlo...
32
00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:45,640
..than through her letters and her diary.
33
00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,880
Frida has always been
a very good storyteller.
34
00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:54,160
She always played with facts
and fiction with life and myth.
35
00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:00,840
Outline of my life.
36
00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,560
1910.
37
00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,480
I was born in the room on the corner
of Calle Londres and Calle Allende in Coyoacán.
38
00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:13,560
At one o'clock in the morning. My father, Guillermo
Kahlo, emigrated to Mexico in the 19th century.
39
00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,560
He settled here for the rest of his life.
He married a Mexican girl.
40
00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:23,080
When his wife died, he married
Mathilde Calderòn y Gonzalez.
41
00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,120
One of twelve children
of my grandfather Antonio Calderòn.
42
00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:31,440
A man of an indigenous race
from the state of Michoacan...
43
00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,400
..and my grandmother
Isabel Gonzalez y Gonzalez.
44
00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,640
Who was the daughter
of a Spanish general.
45
00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:41,680
My childhood was wonderful,
even though my father was not a healthy man.
46
00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:44,760
He was an immense example
for me of tenderness and work.
47
00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,200
He was a photographer
and also a painter.
48
00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:54,640
I saw with my own eyes the clash between
Zapata's peasants and the forces of Carranza.
49
00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,320
My position was very clear.
50
00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:58,840
We were four sisters.
51
00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,160
Matita. Adri.
52
00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:06,440
Me, Frida, and Cristina,
the chubby midget. I'll talk about her later.
53
00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,720
With a caring family
and a reawakened nation,...
54
00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:27,440
..the young Frida had
a bright future ahead of her,...
55
00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:32,280
..but a terrible accident
would change everything.
56
00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,960
A little while ago,
not much more than a few days ago,...
57
00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,040
..I was a child
who went about in a world of colors.
58
00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,040
Of hard and tangible forms.
59
00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:49,840
Everything was mysterious
and something was hidden.
60
00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:54,000
Guessing
hat it was a game for me.
61
00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:00,400
If you knew how terrible
it is to know suddenly.
62
00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,360
As if a bolt of lightning
elucidated the earth.
63
00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:08,960
Now I live in a painful planet,
transparent as ice.
64
00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,560
But it is as if I had learned
everything at once in seconds.
65
00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:19,800
I became old in instants
and everything today is bland and lucid.
66
00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,920
I know that nothing lies behind.
If there was something, I would see it.
67
00:08:53,320 --> 00:09:00,480
It was on this corner that Frida had a accident
while returning home with her boyfriend Alejandro.
68
00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:07,280
The bus collided with a streetcar,
...
69
00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:12,160
..a crushed foot, a fractured leg,
a splintered column,...
70
00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,360
..but the most horrifying thing...
71
00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:22,920
..was that a hand-rail went through
her abdomen and out of her pelvis.
72
00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:25,560
Frida would spend one month
in the Red Cross hospital...
73
00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,440
..and another 8 at home.
74
00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:33,960
That's when she started to paint.
The accident changed her life.
75
00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:39,080
And in that moment,
in that place...
76
00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,120
..two Fridas were born.
77
00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:51,440
The first is that which becomes
the icon everyone knows,...
78
00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:57,800
..the independent and strong woman
tormented by agony and love.
79
00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:09,560
The second is the artist
unleashed from her physical restraints.
80
00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:20,520
The affliction of one
fed the vision of the other.
81
00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:25,200
The energy of one
kept the other alive.
82
00:10:35,160 --> 00:10:40,120
Two faces of the same person
sharing one heart.
83
00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:46,360
On their own, they would never have
endured what life had in store for them.
84
00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:42,840
After the accident, Frida spent
many months convalescencing in bed.
85
00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,800
Spending
so much time alone...
86
00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:50,800
..converted her art
into self-representation.
87
00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:56,520
"I paint myself
because I am the person I know best".
88
00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:47,000
This is the bed adapted
for Frida after the accident.
89
00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:49,120
Her mother had
a mirror rigged up,...
90
00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:55,960
..and her father built her a piece of furniture
so she could paint and see herself in the mirror.
91
00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:08,920
In her early portraits, Frida Khalo paints
herself in very rigid style, very European style,...
92
00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,480
..especially in
"Self-portrait in a velvet dress",...
93
00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:15,280
..where she appears so rigid.
94
00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:17,680
Perhaps, one year after her accident,...
95
00:13:17,760 --> 00:13:23,000
..she was remembering how her body had been,
longing for what she had lost.
96
00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:48,120
"I never painted dreams" she would say,
"I painted my own reality".
97
00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:53,200
But looking at those bloody reds
and her abyss-like blacks,...
98
00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:58,280
..it is clear that Frida
was still holding back a hurricane.
99
00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:02,320
Her was a fiery butterfly
within to burst.
100
00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:06,920
All she needed for it
to pop was a little push...
101
00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,640
..or, even better, a gunshot.
102
00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:37,000
Diego in my urine.
Diego in my mouth, in my heart,...
103
00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:40,080
..in my madness,
in my dream, in the blotting paper.
104
00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:44,680
In the tip of the pen,
in the landscapes, in the food, in my imagination.
105
00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:50,280
In the ruptures,
in his eyes, in his mouth, in his lie.
106
00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:10,080
It is said that Frida
came here with her work...
107
00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:16,040
..and showed it to Diego Rivera while
he was painting these wonderful murals.
108
00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:20,120
"I want you to see my work.
Will I be an artist one day?"
109
00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,960
He came down from his scaffolding
to look at the pictures.
110
00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:27,920
She was amazed by his little hands
and large cyclopean eyes.
111
00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,000
She would love him forever.
112
00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:46,320
When Frida and Diego became friends,...
113
00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:53,000
..Diego Rivera showed interest in her
and visited her at the house in Coyoacán.
114
00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:57,800
Now it's a museum,
but once it was the home of the Kahlo family.
115
00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:07,440
..
116
00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,560
.."I see that you are interested
in my daughter".
117
00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:18,440
"Yes, otherwise I
would not come to Coyoacán to visit her".
118
00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,880
And Guillermo Kahlo,
...
119
00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:24,560
.."I warn you, she is a demon".
120
00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:30,640
"I know, and it's fine".
121
00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:34,760
So he began to come
to the house to visit her.
122
00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,240
WELCOME HOME...
123
00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:54,400
On August 21, 1929,
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo got married.
124
00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:59,120
...
125
00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:05,880
..Diego Rivera was so
big and Frida so small,...
126
00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:10,040
..and people said
they looked like an elephant and a dove.
127
00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:31,240
Diego Rivera
was the most famous artist in Mexico...
128
00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:36,480
..and Frida was one of the few
who manage to stand up to him.
129
00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:40,520
No matter how difficult
things became at certain times...
130
00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:43,080
..and despite the troubles they got into...
131
00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:50,920
..their relationship was so solid that they
were literally living one inside the other.
132
00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:55,320
I think that opening these spaces...
133
00:18:55,360 --> 00:19:02,880
..hasn't changed Frida and Diego's story,
but it gives it a new perspective.
134
00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:13,600
Through her objects we have
discovered the person inside the artist,...
135
00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:17,440
..the bohemian, cheerful Frida,...
136
00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:22,560
..who knew how to turn pain
into a work of art.
137
00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:36,080
She knew she could die,
but she wanted to live life to the fullest.
138
00:19:36,120 --> 00:19:40,160
That's why for her,
friendship or love...
139
00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,160
..today it's here, tomorrow it's gone.
140
00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,680
She was frustrated and bedridden,...
141
00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,760
..but she decided
to live her life and with colors.
142
00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:02,800
There is a very nice phrase I love.
143
00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,440
Frida wrote very well,...
144
00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:12,080
..she was very precise,
and very sensitive, too,...
145
00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:17,200
"You welcomed me
destroyed, and you gave me back whole."
146
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:22,400
In this urn,...
147
00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:26,440
..a pre-Hispanic frog-toad,...
148
00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,000
..are Frida's ashes.
149
00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:33,440
She is in a frog-toad,
because Diego was nicknamed "Saporrana",...
150
00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:36,720
..and she'd call him "my little toad".
151
00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:44,040
The reason her ashes are here
is that Frida rests inside Diego,...
152
00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,400
..this is a pre-Hispanic Diego.
153
00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:54,240
In this urn Diego put,
on top of her ashes,...
154
00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:58,800
..her bodice...
155
00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:02,320
..and her Mexican shawl.
156
00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:09,400
It is very moving because
it speaks of the great love,...
157
00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:16,440
..affection and respect
that Diego... had for Frida.
158
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:10,840
In 1930,
three months pregnant,...
159
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:14,120
..Frida performed an abortion.
160
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:18,320
Miscarriages
will haunt Frida for the rest of her life...
161
00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:22,600
..and she tried to exorcise these
ghosts by portraying her sorrow...
162
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:27,400
..with her brushes dipped
into oil and tears.
163
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,360
No matter what Frida does
or where she goes...
164
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:47,560
..the shadow of the streetcar accident
is constantly cast upon her.
165
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,560
A trauma that generates new scars,...
166
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:55,400
..running deep in her body
and inside her mind.
167
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,760
Buzzing, stoning,
whiteness of gray road,...
168
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:09,480
..silhouette, tenderness, ballad.
169
00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,800
Gangrene, Petrarch,
sunflower, sinister blues.
170
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,960
Acute, rosemary.
171
00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:22,920
Circumlocutions,
garbage, yesterday, lap, tumbling.
172
00:23:23,120 --> 00:23:28,760
Visions, illusive,
sleeping, pillar, friendly columns.
173
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:34,480
Murmurs of glass,
abuses, nearby, lies, passion.
174
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:39,680
Arcane, thousands, money,
vigor, overlapping conscience.
175
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,480
Prostitute palm grove,
the strength marine.
176
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,840
Hunchback control, looks I say,...
177
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,200
..withered lair, "mikado" .
178
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,800
Senile gurgle,
square bright star seized,...
179
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,440
..at russet dawn, at the green lie.
180
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:22,120
Here in Gringoland, I spend
my life dreaming of returning to Mexico.
181
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,920
A few months
after Frida's first miscarriage,...
182
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:36,280
..the couple moved to the United States.
183
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:41,160
Diego Rivera was invited
to paint murals in Detroit,...
184
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,600
..San Francisco and New York.
185
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:51,440
He accepted these commissions
offered by the great capitalism...
186
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:56,040
..represented by Henry Ford,
Rockefeller, financers,...
187
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:59,760
..or the San Francisco Stock Exchange.
188
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:07,480
He thought that in these great works
of art he could represent his socialist ideals...
189
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:11,880
..and defend the working class.
190
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,680
Frida couldn't stand
the American way of life.
191
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,600
She got tired
of speaking English all the time...
192
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:46,760
..and found the local citizens boring,
and lacking in personality.
193
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:52,120
Many of these gringos called her
indigenous comrades "monkeys".
194
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:58,280
These were the enemies who raped,
poisoned and robbed the land she loved so much.
195
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,440
During
the time spent in the United States,...
196
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:15,360
..Frida experienced contradictions
and conflict because,...
197
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,840
..she missed her beloved Mexico,...
198
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:23,440
..faced with what she considered the cold,...
199
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,480
..industrialized,...
200
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,640
..and dehumanized society of the United States.
201
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,200
During this time,
...
202
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,000
.."My dress hangs there",...
203
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:39,800
..and "Self-Portrait on the Border Line", 1933.
204
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:44,240
She painted "Self-Portrait" in two parts,...
205
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,400
..one full of light and sun
representing Mexico,...
206
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:52,360
..with elements of pre-Hispanic
pieces and popular art.
207
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:58,200
In the darkest part
there are factories,...
208
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,360
..skyscrapers, smoke.
209
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,720
It's the same
with "My dress hangs there",...
210
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:12,760
..where the dress is herself,
floating, as if she wasn't there,...
211
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:18,120
..as if she were carrying out an analysis,
and its representation goes beyond art,...
212
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:22,040
..becoming a political
and social analysis of that time.
213
00:27:38,120 --> 00:27:41,160
Frida rejected the exploitative,...
214
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,920
..neo-colonialist mores
of this terrifying new world...
215
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,480
..with its social disparities and injustices.
216
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:58,600
Hers was a primordial need a craving
...
217
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,200
..pre-Columbian Mexico.
218
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:26,000
When Frida came here
Teotihuacan, you know...
219
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,520
Some of this hasn't really changed very much...
220
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:32,000
..but she would have seen
the pyramid of the Sun here.
221
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:39,040
What we see today it's our version
of Teotihuacan or a version of Teotihuacan...
222
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:44,120
We see a version of Teotihuacan now that
was basically constructed in the 20th Century
223
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:51,440
to foment national pride
in the ancient past, in the glories of the past.
224
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,520
That's why tourists will come here today...
225
00:28:55,560 --> 00:29:00,040
..to kind of glory in that amazing past.
226
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:11,520
Kahlo would have also been
very interested in the concept of dualities...
227
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,440
..how you could get a sense
of that here in Teotihuacan.
228
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:20,960
You had a pyramid of the Sun which of
course represented the day and that all aspect...
229
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:25,960
..the heat, light, life, and then
the Moon which would have been associated...
230
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,680
..with night and darkness
and perhaps even death.
231
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,480
These dualities, for Mesoamerican
people, including the Aztecs,...
232
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,960
..structured their whole cosmos
and universe, life and death.
233
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:45,360
These two parts
would have been not separate...
234
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,720
..like evil and good
are separate in the Christian tradition,...
235
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:55,120
..but really more integrated into a
whole that neither side alone was enough...
236
00:29:55,160 --> 00:30:00,400
..but only the two together
create this single cosmic force.
237
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,360
The theme of Aztec dualism...
238
00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:54,440
..is explored in
"The Love Embrace of the Universe,...
239
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:59,880
..the Earth Myself,
Diego and Señor Xolotl".
240
00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:02,360
The canvas is split in half...
241
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:07,000
..divided into night and day,
nature and soul,...
242
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:11,920
..and Frida is holding
a baby with Diego's face.
243
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,920
Her breasts are covered
and although she looks at peace,...
244
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,440
..teardrops mark her cheeks,...
245
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:24,160
..and blood spurts onto her chest
from a bright red crack.
246
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:29,960
The connection between Frida, and the
feminine energies of the Earth are clear...
247
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,800
..as the various layers of the universe,...
248
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:38,560
..depicted in a female form
embrace each other, united.
249
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:48,960
The mother-daughter
relationship is more evident in "My Nurse and I".
250
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,520
Based
on her childhood memories,...
251
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:56,800
..she is about to be breast fed
by her native indigenous wet nurse.
252
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,360
The artist was obviously
too young to remember her,...
253
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,400
..and that's why she is depicted
without a face,...
254
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:08,840
..wearing instead
a pre-Columbian funerary mask.
255
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:13,600
Once again, Life and Death.
256
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,880
Such was the importance
of Pre-Columbian culture...
257
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:27,600
..that Diego and Frida began collecting
a huge number of ancient artifacts.
258
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:32,240
The collection became
the cornerstone of the Anahuacalli Museum.
259
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,760
The couple wanted to leave
a record for the ages,...
260
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:40,440
..creating a firm bond
between their people and roots.
261
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:50,200
From a cultural point of view,
they were the perfect couple.
262
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,840
They both loved the same Mexican culture,...
263
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:57,280
..they both loved our country
and they believed in our people.
264
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:04,960
The idea of Diego was to create
a house for his pre-Columbian collection...
265
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,920
..that would serve future generations.
266
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:13,800
That's why he built this, so future
generations could learn about it see it,...
267
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:21,160
..live with it and feel proud,
and help them in their cultural growth.
268
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:25,800
Diego wanted to preserve
that and that was one of his dreams.
269
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:30,600
He was very romantic, and, as well as Frida,...
270
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,200
..very passionate
of Mexican culture and history.
271
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:53,240
Flesh offerings
were one of the leitmotifs of Aztec culture.
272
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,920
In order to repay
their debts to the gods...
273
00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:00,560
..priests gave the blood of their people.
274
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:04,640
Frida, too,
was to understand the meaning of sacrifice...
275
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,080
..during the course of her life.
276
00:34:14,240 --> 00:34:18,040
Dualism returns
in "The Tree of Hope"...
277
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,800
..where we can see
two different Fridas.
278
00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:23,720
One is
...
279
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:29,920
..her bloody battered body
is mercilessly offered to a hungry Sun God.
280
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,920
She is tired, in pain,...
281
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:37,600
..and doesn't even have
the strength to show her face.
282
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,800
The other is watching over her...
283
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:44,240
..illuminated only by moonlight
...
284
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,760
.."Arbol de la Esperanza, mantente firme",...
285
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:51,840
..or "Tree of hope, keep firm".
286
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:57,920
She is strong, proud,
but cannot keep back her tears...
287
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:03,960
..as if she knew that pain
was often necessary to generate beauty.
288
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,440
On July 4th 1932,...
289
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:23,920
..while Detroit is illuminated by the
fireworks celebrating Independence Day...
290
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:28,800
..Frida loses her second unborn baby.
291
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,960
The second miscarriage, in Detroit,...
292
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,640
..was very traumatic,
and left Frida devastated.
293
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:36,840
She asked the doctor
to bring her the fetus and a book.
294
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,160
She wanted to know what happened
within her body,...
295
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:46,280
..and with that material, she painted the small,
but important, "Henry Ford Hospital".
296
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,960
Frida is lying on a bed,
bleeding,...
297
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,920
..circled by six objects
held together by six ribbons...
298
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:02,240
..coming out of her stomach
like umbilical cords.
299
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:06,480
A cold,
dehumanized machine,...
300
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,400
..an orchid, a gift from Diego,...
301
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:14,240
..the fractured pelvic bone,
that is the cause of all her problems,...
302
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,400
..an orthopedic cast,...
303
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:21,680
..a snail, symbolizing
the slowness of the abortion,...
304
00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:26,240
..and, at the center,
her unborn son.
305
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:31,120
His lifeless body
is floating above her like a ghost,...
306
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,640
..but she is staring in our direction...
307
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:37,480
..as if she cannot bear
the nightmarish vision.
308
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,920
Its qualities and potency
are undeniable...
309
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:46,200
..as is its representation of a woman's
resilience to pain and suffering.
310
00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:51,080
A representation depicted
through the Mexican ex-voto form.
311
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:48,840
All of Frida Khalo's
easel works are inspired by ex-voto paintings.
312
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:56,080
Ex-votos are stories told
by people to thank a saint,...
313
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,720
..or the virgin Mary.
314
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:05,720
They might give thanks
only because they are alive.
315
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,520
Ex-votos are short films
with a beginning and an end,...
316
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:18,800
..a scene illustrating the moment,
and a text telling the story.
317
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,680
Ex-voto paintings come from Europe,...
318
00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:29,720
..but it is here in Mexico
that they take on more human warmth.
319
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:37,480
When people tell me a story,
I feel they expose themselves,...
320
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:43,480
..trusting me with their feelings.
321
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:50,040
The retablero's task is
to explain what people want.
322
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:54,440
Sometimes it is painful,
but it is necessary.
323
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:58,240
Here in Mexico
we have to give thanks for this.
324
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,640
By the end of 1933,...
325
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:27,040
..about 1 year and a half
after the abortion in Detroit,...
326
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:32,160
..Diego reluctantly agrees
to take his wife back to Mexico.
327
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,720
This has a big backlash
on the balance of the couple relationship.
328
00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:44,760
Frida is happy
to end this grim chapter of her life.
329
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,280
She is unaware
that the worst is yet to come.
330
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:13,680
I had never suffered so much.
And did not think I could take so much pain.
331
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:16,800
You cannot even imagine
what state I'm in.
332
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,960
And I know it is going to take me years
to get out of this mess that I have in my head.
333
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,640
At the beginning
I thought there was a solution.
334
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:32,680
I thought that what had happened would be something
that would last a short time and wouldn't be serious.
335
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:39,680
But every day I am more and more
convinced that it was just wishful thinking.
336
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:54,320
After a
time in the United States,...
337
00:42:54,320 --> 00:43:01,080
..Frida and Diego moved to these twin
houses Diego had commissioned his friend,...
338
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,320
..the architect and extraordinary
painter Juan O'Gorman,...
339
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:10,080
..to build in the San Ángel district.
340
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,680
The houses are separated.
341
00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:17,000
Two houses,...
342
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:23,680
..one is for Diego,
with a studio and one room,...
343
00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:28,400
..and the other house
with a study is for Frida.
344
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:39,680
Diego, when asked for the
eccentricity of the twin separated houses,...
345
00:43:39,720 --> 00:43:47,520
..would answer in a very amusing way
that they preserved conjugal peace.
346
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:52,080
Frida Kahlo lived only
a short time in these houses.
347
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:58,480
Her emotional balance was precarious.
348
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:05,960
When she lived here, she learnt of
Diego's romance with Cristina, her sister.
349
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:13,360
It created a deep emotional
fracture between them.
350
00:44:24,240 --> 00:44:27,960
Reciprocal infidelities
had been a constant in their marriage,...
351
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:31,440
..but learning that Diego
had been with her sister Cristina...
352
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,080
..proved to be a blow too low for Frida.
353
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:38,240
She leaves Rivera,
and goes to live on her own for almost a year.
354
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,760
She is trying to reinvent herself,...
355
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:47,320
..to emancipate herself from her
broken body and failed love story...
356
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:52,560
..using the canvas as a reminder
of what she has chosen to leave behind.
357
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:57,960
She creates one of her most visceral,
...
358
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,360
.."A Few Small Nips".
359
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:12,360
Inside a tiny frame Frida
represents a bloodied woman lying on a bed,...
360
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:17,840
..her blood-splattered killer still
wielding the knife in his right hand.
361
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,120
In an image of
surreal horror...
362
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:24,720
..her upper and lower body
are portrayed in inverse directions.
363
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:30,480
The killer in the painting is
portrayed as the classic Latino-macho cliché...
364
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:35,080
..standing strong and proud
with a beast-like glare.
365
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:40,160
The woman is reduced
to a lifeless object...
366
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,600
..unable to answer
the observer's questions...
367
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,280
..as to what has happened.
368
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:10,040
It is at this point in her life...
369
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:13,640
..that Frida learns how to support herself,...
370
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:17,160
..how to emerge out of Diego's shadow.
371
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:36,000
She starts, consciously or not,
to work on her image as an icon.
372
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:51,480
Each object is part of her life,
of her personality.
373
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:58,400
Through the object
you discover the artist, the person.
374
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:03,680
She knew this well, that's why she
dressed as she did and wore necklaces.
375
00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:10,400
She knew well the meaning all these
things had in her life, and in her work.
376
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:15,040
And she turned her-self
into a work of art.
377
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,880
With all these things...
378
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,920
It's very interesting.
379
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:29,480
She rebuilt herself with
the objects that surrounded her.
380
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:36,560
And these things gave her life.
They are part of her work.
381
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:41,680
"I paint to paint,
I paint what surrounds me, what I love".
382
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:46,800
They also reveal
a woman intellectually restless,...
383
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:51,560
..who is not weak at all.
384
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:53,320
Frida weak? No.
385
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:55,800
She was a cheerful woman...
386
00:47:56,880 --> 00:48:01,240
She loved mariachi,
tequila, the will to live.
387
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:08,880
She turned her house,
her clothes, and her objects
388
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,720
into art for herself.
389
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:16,680
She turned them into art...
390
00:48:16,720 --> 00:48:21,880
..in her house, on herself,
and in her paintings.
391
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:32,120
This is from Tehuantepec in Oaxaca.
392
00:48:32,160 --> 00:48:37,160
It is incredibly well preserved
because it is made of very fragile material.
393
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:41,560
She used these
things to decorate.
394
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:57,320
Tehuantepec
is a major city in the state of Oaxaca...
395
00:48:57,360 --> 00:48:59,400
..in south-western Mexico.
396
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:04,200
It is the center
of Zapotec culture...
397
00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:08,720
..and has a reputation
for been a matriarchal society.
398
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:19,160
The women of Tehuantepec
still dominate the local market...
399
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,800
..and are famous
for their traditional dresses.
400
00:49:24,040 --> 00:49:30,400
Frida never got to see this place,
but fell in love with its ideals and aesthetics,...
401
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:34,720
..especially with the "huipil grande",
the traditional headdress,...
402
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:39,640
..in which she frames her face
in "Self Portrait" as a Tehuana.
403
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:46,320
Flowers garnish her forehead like
a crown endowing her with a royal look.
404
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,680
She is graceful, ethereal.
405
00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:54,400
The perfect representation
of a completely different world.
406
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:47,560
The Zapotec world of Tehuantepec
or Juchitan is very interesting...
407
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:51,600
..because
it is not as modern as other places,...
408
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:54,360
..at least until recently,
when I visited Juchitan.
409
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:59,200
They like partying a lot.
410
00:50:59,240 --> 00:51:03,480
This is what happens after a "kidnapping".
They call it kidnapping but it's not that.
411
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:08,280
The bride's mother
tells them her daughter is not a virgin,..
412
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:14,240
..and they dance of joy,
but they also cry because it's a drama.
413
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:21,120
Bride and groom go
to the groom's parents house,...
414
00:51:21,160 --> 00:51:24,160
..where they take away her virginity
with a finger.
415
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:26,440
It's hard but that's how it goes.
416
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:33,200
If the next day his mother,
they are at his house, sees there is blood,...
417
00:51:33,240 --> 00:51:35,080
..which means the girl was a virgin,...
418
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,840
..they place red tulips and confetti,...
419
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:43,600
..and then they sing,
celebrate sand cry.
420
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:19,040
Frida was a very sensitive woman,
she loved this,...
421
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:22,520
and that's how she dressed,
with her shawls and her jewelry...
422
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,800
A lot of her jewelry was stolen
when she died.
423
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:34,200
She was really in love
with Mexican clothes and jewelry.
424
00:53:34,240 --> 00:53:41,280
She even tried getting clothes she
liked through her favorite dealers.
425
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:45,480
This is a party.
Both women and men drink a lot.
426
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:50,280
Men fall down but women do not,
they handle it better.
427
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:55,800
Women sell at the market.
428
00:53:55,880 --> 00:54:01,400
Men are not allowed to go.
429
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:06,640
Women manage the family economy.
We call it matriarchy.
430
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,880
I do not know whether it is
a special situation here in Mexico,...
431
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:50,720
..but for us Mexicans,
when someone suffers severe pain,...
432
00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:56,920
..we feel a sort of compassion,
and she was made a saint, right?
433
00:56:57,240 --> 00:57:02,240
Frida was made a saint, and this is the
most visited museum that most people go to.
434
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:08,440
It is a very important image,
for everybody.
435
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:15,760
I don't relieve in the myth of Saint Frida,
and that she was feminist...
436
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,040
I do not
think it's true.
437
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:23,960
When feminists present Frida
as a feminist, I wonder why.
438
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:26,080
No, she was not a feminist.
439
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:28,800
She was a liberated woman,...
440
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:35,480
..like Diego, free to have sex with
whomever she liked, women, men,
441
00:57:35,520 --> 00:57:40,280
..but, I think always
submissive with Diego.
442
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:51,640
The most intense of these liaisons
are with the photographer Nickolas Muray,...
443
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:55,920
..and the Japanese-American artist,
Isamu Noguchi.
444
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:02,760
She is happy again.
And this is something Diego cannot stand.
445
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:09,960
He storms off to her home,
armed as usual,...
446
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:12,480
..in order to reclaim her.
447
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:35,400
Diego's return opens
a new chapter in Frida's life,...
448
00:58:35,440 --> 00:58:41,440
one where their house becomes a beacon,
for the most prominent intellectuals of the time.
449
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:51,280
Leo Trotsky goes on trial at the
home of Mr and Mrs Diego Rivera in Mexico.
450
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:53,640
The trial's entirely unofficial.
451
00:58:53,680 --> 00:59:00,080
In Moscow the Russian government charged
Trotsky, on left, of being a counter-revolutionist.
452
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:05,800
Diego managed
to convince the Mexican president...
453
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:08,720
..to give asylum to the Soviet exile.
454
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:17,520
It didn't take long for Frida
and Trotsky to become attracted to each other.
455
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:20,120
Their secret affair
didn't last long,...
456
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:27,760
..but Diego's jealous reaction to his political
hero, sufficed to give her immense satisfaction.
457
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:36,320
In 1938, the Surrealism
theorist, André Breton, landed in Mexico.
458
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,240
Together with Rivera and Trotsky,...
459
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:44,840
..he published the "Manifesto
for an Independent Revolutionary Art",...
460
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:50,400
..with the intent of using culture
as a weapon against totalitarian regimes.
461
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:56,280
It was Frida's works
that captured his attention.
462
00:59:56,320 --> 01:00:00,040
Comparing them to the European
surrealist movement,...
463
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:04,480
..he describes them
as a "ribbon around a bomb".
464
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:09,280
Frida rejected the comparison.
465
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:15,040
She didn't want to represent the
petit bourgeois dream landscape, for its own sake.
466
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:19,800
She wanted to use her vision to
represent the Mexican underbelly,...
467
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:23,400
..filtered through its cultural iconography.
468
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:36,280
I never painted dreams.
I painted my own reality.
469
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:54,480
In "What the Water Gave Me",
something extraordinary happens.
470
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:58,240
We finally see the world
from Frida's point of view.
471
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:03,080
It's a rare, intimate portrayal
of her creative process.
472
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:08,440
Under the apparently calm,
relaxed waters of a daily bath,...
473
01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:12,560
..we witness her visual stream of consciousness.
474
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:19,600
There's a sense of melancholy, as Frida
remembers some of her past works her parents,...
475
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:22,000
..and the terrible American years...
476
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:27,040
..shown through an Empire State Building
swallowed by a volcano.
477
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:34,680
The flowering desert plants,
and their roots betray a desire for rebirth.
478
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:43,800
Her vision
is further explored in "The Dream",...
479
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:47,320
..where a Día de Los Muertos skeleton floats,...
480
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:52,320
..above a sleeping Frida
wired with explosives.
481
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:57,160
The artist, on the other side,
is covered with green plants,...
482
01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:02,240
..challenging the Grim Reaper
with the beauty of Life.
483
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:06,680
She is mocking Death
in a typical Mexican style.
484
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:22,560
She has this beautiful painting where she
is lying in bed, and death is lying above her.
485
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:28,480
I think she said the same
486
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:34,400
"The Skull smiled at us",
fate gave us a second chance.
487
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:41,880
A nice thing in Mexico
is that we play with death,...
488
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:48,120
..we laugh with it, we eat it,
we entertain ourselves with it, we paint it.
489
01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:51,760
It is a tradition
here in Mexico.
490
01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:57,720
We play with it
when we put on a death mask,...
491
01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:02,760
..we eat it in the Skull shaped
sweets sold in November,...
492
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:07,520
..we laugh with it because
we paint it drunk and playful.
493
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:12,920
I think we all carry death on our backs,...
494
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:15,720
..that's how it is for me,...
495
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:20,440
...
496
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:24,880
"Enough, let's go,"
or "Be happy and enjoy your life".
497
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:55,120
In 1938,
things with Diego start worsening again...
498
01:03:55,160 --> 01:04:01,240
..to the point on 6th of November,
their marriage is over.
499
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:35,840
The day
the divorce documents reach Frida,...
500
01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:40,480
..she finished her largest
...
501
01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:43,000
.."The Two Fridas".
502
01:05:06,480 --> 01:05:12,080
Here we have one of the most well-known,
painting by Frida Kahlo, "The Two Fridas".
503
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:16,720
It is a single person depicted twice.
504
01:05:16,760 --> 01:05:19,480
She had just divorced Diego Rivera,...
505
01:05:19,520 --> 01:05:25,200
..and here she depicts him
in a small portrait from which comes out...
506
01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:30,520
..an artery uniting
the two hearts of Frida Kahlo,...
507
01:05:30,560 --> 01:05:39,000
..to represent her racial richness,
Spanish, indigenous, Criollo.
508
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:46,120
A hemostat stop the blood
which turns into flowers.
509
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:51,280
Blood becomes life, as everything
does with Frida. Pain becomes art.
510
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:56,400
A dark sky announces a storm, loneliness.
511
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:04,720
The fact I painted myself twice.
512
01:06:04,760 --> 01:06:09,360
Doesn't mean it was only
a representation of solitude. It's almost like.
513
01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:13,040
Turning to myself,
searching for my own help.
514
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:16,760
It's for this reason
that the two figures shake hands.
515
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:19,280
I don't think the difference
in style of the clothes...
516
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:22,800
..is of greater importance
than that of the color or form.
517
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:27,680
The most vivid object
in the picture is the hearts.
518
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:31,920
That are enjoined by imaginary arteries.
To become just one.
519
01:06:54,360 --> 01:07:00,240
After the divorce
Frida's body continues to torment her.
520
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:13,480
She is used to it now, and knows
she will never escape from her cage of flesh...
521
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:17,400
..facing her sorrow
with great dignity and calm,...
522
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:22,680
..even when thorns pierce her neck,
like the crown on Jesus' head.
523
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:27,000
The apparent grace
of the flora and fauna surrounding her,...
524
01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:31,120
..are a wretched reminder
of what she has lost.
525
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:35,760
A once lively,
brightly-colored humming bird is dark,...
526
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:40,880
..hanging from her necklace,
while a monkey distractedly proceeds,...
527
01:07:40,920 --> 01:07:44,640
..with the tightening
of her instrument of torture.
528
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:55,560
This time, Frida will not give
her captors the satisfaction of seeing her cry.
529
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:02,320
Coyoacán, near Mexico City,
August 20th, 1940.
530
01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:07,840
A young man plunges a mountain
climber's axe in the old man's skull.
531
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:13,400
The exiled, Leon Trotsky, is dead.
532
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:21,040
After Trosky's death,
Frida is put in custody,...
533
01:08:21,080 --> 01:08:24,040
..and questioned
by the police for twelve hours.
534
01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:31,000
A few months earlier Diego had fled
to the U.S. because he was among the suspects.
535
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:36,600
When he learns that Frida is being
arrested, and about her health conditions,...
536
01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:40,680
..he urges her to join him
in the United States.
537
01:08:40,720 --> 01:08:45,960
It is there,
for some reason, that they decide to remarry.
538
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:58,560
Despite the ups and downs
between Diego Rivera and Frida Khalo...
539
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:04,440
..due to multiple affairs on both sides,...
540
01:09:04,480 --> 01:09:09,080
they were always friends,
they were always close.
541
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:18,680
Frida forgave Diego
for his affair with her sister Cristina,...
542
01:09:18,720 --> 01:09:21,840
..and they remarried.
543
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:28,080
Frida agreed to remarry
under some conditions.
544
01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:34,360
There were two main conditions.
The first one is no sex.
545
01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:40,680
The second, determined by Frida's
increased confidence in her art,...
546
01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:44,160
..in her creativity,...
547
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:51,680
..was that she would pay
her own way after the marriage.
548
01:09:57,560 --> 01:10:01,520
In the early forties,
Frida's career takes off.
549
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:03,760
She is now accepted worldwide...
550
01:10:03,800 --> 01:10:09,800
..as one of Mexico's most prominent
painters, and her commissions skyrocket.
551
01:10:11,600 --> 01:10:16,080
She's on the verge
of achieving full artistic recognition,...
552
01:10:16,120 --> 01:10:20,760
..but health-wise,
there would be a heavy price to pay.
553
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:57,360
Frida's backbone
and right foot start worsening.
554
01:10:57,400 --> 01:11:01,040
Her vertebras
cannot sustain her body anymore.
555
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:07,480
A bone surgeon prescribes
her complete rest and a bust to support her spine.
556
01:11:28,160 --> 01:11:33,680
Well, here we have Frida's corsets.
She could not walk without them.
557
01:11:33,720 --> 01:11:36,880
She depicts this physical limitation...
558
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:42,400
..in one of her most important
paintings, "The Broken Column",...
559
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:47,120
..a fragmented column.
560
01:11:47,160 --> 01:11:50,520
She is crying, she illustrates pain,...
561
01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:56,680
..but she looks straight ahead
and is not overwhelmed by life.
562
01:11:57,560 --> 01:12:01,320
Here she brings together pain and life.
563
01:12:01,360 --> 01:12:06,040
She is accustomed to facing life,
and she invites the onlooker to look at her,...
564
01:12:06,080 --> 01:12:09,600
..at her feelings, at her deepest being.
565
01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:24,200
In 1946, Frida
goes to New York to undergo surgery...
566
01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:28,880
..that would later reveal itself
to be a complete failure.
567
01:12:28,920 --> 01:12:33,040
To solve her spine problem,
4 vertebras are fused together...
568
01:12:33,080 --> 01:12:36,480
..with a piece of bone
removed from her pelvis,...
569
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:39,240
..and a five-inch long metal bar.
570
01:12:56,080 --> 01:12:58,080
Pain is real.
571
01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:04,640
And if you ever experience pain in your
life, you know pain is not romantic at all.
572
01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:06,880
Pain is disgusting.
573
01:13:06,920 --> 01:13:13,000
Frida is obsessed with it, and she wants
to know everything about her suffering.
574
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:36,760
Frida's pain gets worse and worse,...
575
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:41,200
and she represents it in emblematic
works of art such as "The Wounded Deer",...
576
01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:47,000
..a desolate,
deserted landscape with sad trees.
577
01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:53,600
The arrows piercing
her body represent the pain she feels.
578
01:13:56,120 --> 01:14:00,520
I leave you my portrait.
So that you will have my presence.
579
01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:04,760
All the days and nights,
that I am away from you.
580
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:08,400
The sadness is portrayed in all my painting.
581
01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:12,840
But that's my condition.
I do not have any composure.
582
01:14:18,400 --> 01:14:24,040
Imagine how poor Frida
had to paint wearing these things.
583
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:30,840
I had the opportunity to visit
Frida Kahlo's museum a few years ago...
584
01:14:30,880 --> 01:14:34,880
when Hilda asked me
to photograph her "huipiles".
585
01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:41,320
I noticed that they had just
opened her bathroom, after 50 years.
586
01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:45,720
When Frida Kahlo died in the year '54,...
587
01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:51,800
..Diego said that this bathroom
was not to be opened for 15 years,...
588
01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:54,120
..that's where all her belongings were,...
589
01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:58,800
..but 50 years went by
and the bathroom was not opened.
590
01:14:58,840 --> 01:15:02,080
When I saw it,
right after it had been opened,...
591
01:15:02,120 --> 01:15:08,360
..I asked for permission
to photograph all of Frida's objects,...
592
01:15:08,400 --> 01:15:11,280
...
593
01:15:11,320 --> 01:15:16,080
..corsets, crutches,...
594
01:15:16,120 --> 01:15:22,080
..prosthesis, all these objects of pain.
595
01:15:22,120 --> 01:15:24,800
Everything was in the tub.
596
01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:30,280
I simply took Frida's objects
and interpreted them,...
597
01:15:30,320 --> 01:15:33,920
..in the bathroom and in other places,...
598
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:42,920
..to have a report on Frida's pain,
because it is her pain.
599
01:16:48,560 --> 01:16:52,440
Possibly,
in reaction to her own physical limits,...
600
01:16:52,480 --> 01:16:56,120
..Frida's artistic vision gains in scope.
601
01:16:56,160 --> 01:17:00,440
A wide open space
surrounds her small world in paintings,...
602
01:17:00,480 --> 01:17:04,840
..such as Moses or The Nucleus of Creation,...
603
01:17:04,880 --> 01:17:11,120
..where her traditional landmarks merge with
spiritual elements from all over the world,...
604
01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:15,360
..as the titular baby
is ready to come into existence.
605
01:17:15,400 --> 01:17:19,640
"People need to
make up gods and heroes", Frida said,...
606
01:17:19,680 --> 01:17:22,960
.."because they are afraid
of life and death".
607
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:28,160
There's a sense of
purpose in this masterpiece of clarity.
608
01:17:28,200 --> 01:17:32,040
As if this ensemble
of Frida's protectors and villains,...
609
01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:34,320
..inspirations and failures,...
610
01:17:34,360 --> 01:17:37,680
..turned her into the artist we all know,...
611
01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:41,880
..taking her by the hand
and never leaving her alone.
612
01:18:02,040 --> 01:18:04,240
I must have been six years old,...
613
01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:08,600
..when I had the intense experience
of an imaginary friendship with a little girl.
614
01:18:15,720 --> 01:18:20,160
I used to breathe
on one of the top panes.
615
01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:23,280
And with my finger I would draw a "door".
616
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:29,040
Through that "door" I would leave, in my
imagination, and hurriedly, with immense happiness.
617
01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:36,400
I don't remember
her appearance or her color.
618
01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:38,960
But I do remember her joyfulness.
619
01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:41,840
She laughed a lot.
Soundlessly.
620
01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:49,720
She was agile
and danced as if she were weightless.
621
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:58,600
I followed her in every movement.
622
01:18:59,880 --> 01:19:03,600
And while she danced,
I told her my secret problems.
623
01:19:08,560 --> 01:19:11,160
I was happy.
624
01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:26,400
Life hasn't been kind to Frida.
625
01:19:26,440 --> 01:19:32,680
The more it takes from her,
the more her liberating cry gets louder.
626
01:19:44,960 --> 01:19:52,520
Since 1950 Frida Kahlo's physical
condition began to seriously deteriorate,...
627
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:56,480
..and she has to go repeatedly to hospital.
628
01:19:56,520 --> 01:20:05,080
In 1950 she was hospitalized
on seven different occasions.
629
01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:08,880
It was a very difficult time for her.
630
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:14,200
Gangrene set
into four toes of her right foot,...
631
01:20:14,240 --> 01:20:17,200
..and her leg had to be amputated.
632
01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:25,440
In the spring of 1953,...
633
01:20:25,480 --> 01:20:32,240
..it is clear to everybody that Frida
is about to enter the last chapter of her life.
634
01:20:32,280 --> 01:20:36,040
Possibly influenced
by her physical situation,...
635
01:20:36,080 --> 01:20:38,720
..a personal exhibition of her works...
636
01:20:38,760 --> 01:20:44,040
..is organized at the
Lola Alvarez Bravo Gallery, in Mexico City.
637
01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:48,840
Her face looks
like a mortuary mask,...
638
01:20:48,880 --> 01:20:51,680
..with cheekbones piercing her pale skin,...
639
01:20:51,720 --> 01:20:59,120
..and her unblinking eyes fixed upon
every stare they come into contact with.
640
01:21:03,440 --> 01:21:07,520
The artist may have
been receiving the accolades of a lifetime,...
641
01:21:07,560 --> 01:21:12,840
..but the woman was waiting
upon her own untimely funeral.
642
01:21:20,240 --> 01:21:23,480
August 1953.
643
01:21:23,560 --> 01:21:27,160
It is certain that
they are going to amputate my right leg.
644
01:21:29,800 --> 01:21:35,000
Details I don't know much
but the opinions are reliable.
645
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:38,560
I'm very, very worried.
646
01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:41,880
But at the same time
I feel it could be a relief.
647
01:22:22,400 --> 01:22:28,600
After all the hours lived through.
The vectors continue in their original direction.
648
01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:33,840
Nothing stops them.
With no more knowledge than live emotion.
649
01:22:33,880 --> 01:22:38,040
With no other wish
than to go on until they meet.
650
01:22:38,080 --> 01:22:41,440
Slowly, with great unease.
651
01:22:41,480 --> 01:22:46,280
But with the certainty
that all is guided by the "golden section."
652
01:22:47,360 --> 01:22:49,840
There is cellular arrangement.
653
01:22:49,880 --> 01:22:53,080
There is movement.
There is light.
654
01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:56,280
All centers are the same.
655
01:22:56,320 --> 01:22:59,120
Folly doesn't exist.
656
01:22:59,160 --> 01:23:03,400
We are the same
as we were and as we will be.
657
01:23:03,440 --> 01:23:06,040
Not counting on idiotic destiny.
658
01:23:09,720 --> 01:23:12,480
I hope the exit is joyful.
659
01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:15,240
And I hope never to return.
660
01:23:40,440 --> 01:23:45,760
On July 13th 1954
Frida Kahlo died.
661
01:23:45,800 --> 01:23:49,960
The official cause of death
was pulmonary embolism.
662
01:24:47,480 --> 01:24:53,560
First the illness she suffered as a child,...
663
01:24:53,560 --> 01:25:04,000
..according to what I read, and then
the streetcar accident that pierced her,...
664
01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:07,720
..that's agony,...
665
01:25:07,760 --> 01:25:11,560
..but the pain she paints
is the one that carries in her soul.
666
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:31,080
These are my feet, in Frida's tub.
667
01:25:31,120 --> 01:25:35,000
I have a problem in my foot,
...
668
01:25:35,040 --> 01:25:39,480
.."Fridita, please forgive me",
because I laid down in her tub.
669
01:25:39,520 --> 01:25:43,960
This is my foot after the surgery.
That's me, I laid down and took a photo.
670
01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:49,160
It's a self-portrait,
but I think I did something wrong.
671
01:25:49,200 --> 01:25:54,080
When I have surgery, I'll light a candle
to Santa Frida, so she can cure me.
672
01:26:02,840 --> 01:26:11,320
I discovered Frida Kahlo when
I was about ten years old, reading a book.
673
01:26:11,360 --> 01:26:16,520
I remember I felt confused,
I thought "poor woman",...
674
01:26:16,560 --> 01:26:21,000
..she must have suffered a lot,
and she was my father's aunt.
675
01:26:24,240 --> 01:26:28,720
But I think that I keep discovering
Frida, we all keep discovering her.
676
01:26:35,240 --> 01:26:40,680
Frida Kahlo was like a child,
and in her house, with all those things.
677
01:26:40,720 --> 01:26:44,160
She is playing with you,
she is playing with the viewer, right?
678
01:26:44,200 --> 01:26:46,160
She is leaving clues for you to find.
679
01:26:46,160 --> 01:26:51,480
this
is the part of myself I want people to see.
680
01:27:10,280 --> 01:27:15,160
Before her departure,
she picked up her brush for one last time...
681
01:27:15,200 --> 01:27:18,360
..to write a short sentence.
682
01:27:18,400 --> 01:27:20,640
"Viva la Vida".
59442
Can't find what you're looking for?
Get subtitles in any language from opensubtitles.com, and translate them here.