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Review: ‘Frida,’ now on Prime Video, a controversial but moving Kahlo portrait

The intimate diary reflections of Frida Kahlo become part of the overall documentary mosaic in“ Frida,” now streaming on Prime Video.

Now on Prime Video, the densely embroidered documentary “Frida” pulls from many sources: home movies, archival footage, photographs, letters, its subject’s intimate diary, and reminiscence from friends and lovers of Frida Kahlo, Mexican artist and, later, global museum gift shop merchandise titan.

The film deserves your time, if only to find out where you stand on its primary point of debate. Working with animation creative director Sofía Inés Cázares

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