My wife Eva is a fan of her art/ why I got her the DVD. After 10 minutes she left the film & I agree after watching the whole bunch. ~Some great moments, but come on you guys, Frida was not a speaking English person and in general, indeed this ruined the film for me also. In Holland all is always subtitled, and watching Frida talking English to Diego, it's so fake on this flick... What do you think?
shareBeing French, it's not more disturbing than seeing the entire French army speaking English in Kubrick's Paths of Glory or Dostoevsky's The Idiot in Japanese by Kurosawa.
shareI'm guessing subtitles don't sell so well in international markets...
Personally, I really don't think it matters either way, so long as the authorial intent survives intact. You have to remember, this is an American conception of what Frida was like, and everybody is entitled to their own perspective, regardless of whether they share the same nationality as the subject they're trying to illuminate.
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
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I disagree. The movie wouldn't reach an international audience if it was in Spanish. Language is not important. We didn't hear Rusell Crow speaking in Latin in gladiatior, hebrew in Noah. The miserables isn't in French, Alexander wasn't in old greek. So what?
I'm mexican and here there was an uproar about the language of the film. If the film is produced in Hollywood it's fine it's in the language of the film creators.
You can always watch the mexican version if you want Spanish but I think that even though Ofelia Medina is a better actress than Hayek Julie Taymor is a superior director who got mexican culture right. Taymor's film tops the mexican film in score, art direction, cinematography, make up and all what Hollywood can make better.