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A Star Is Born

Dangerous politics and turbulent love shock Frida's world, while love and trauma shape her final year. As the artist's health deteriorates, her painting thrives.

Dangerous politics and turbulent love shock Frida's world. After conducting a short affair with Leon Trotsky, Diego's political mentor, she finally achieves her own solo exhibition in Europe. But all does not go according to plan, and she returns to Mexico to find that Diego wants a divorce. Pouring her pain into work, she creates one of her most famous masterpieces - The Two Fridas.

After an assassination and an arrest, Diego and Frida are reunited in San Francisco. But her health problems increase, and she spends her last years in excruciating pain, continuing to paint all the while and creating some of her most enduring and heartbreaking images.

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Fri 21 Apr 2023 03:05

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Director Louise Lockwood
Producer Becky Marshall
Executive Producer Nancy Bornat
Executive Producer Mark Hedgecoe
Executive Producer James Rogan
Executive Producer Soleta Rogan

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