Saturday, October 3, 2009

You can do better, Woody.

I read about Frida Kahlo on Wikipedia today, and I came across something relatively interesting. I don't know if you've seen Vicky Christina Barcelona, but doesn't this description of Frida Kahlo's marriage, remind you of the relationship between Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansen and Javier Bardem's characters?

"As a young artist, Kahlo approached the Mexican painter, Diego Rivera, whose work she admired, asking him for advice about pursuing art as a career. He recognized her talent and her unique expression as truly special and uniquely Mexican. He encouraged her artistic development and began an intimate relationship with Frida. They were married in 1929, despite the disapproval of Frida's mother.

Their marriage was often tumultuous. Kahlo and Rivera had fiery temperaments and had numerous extramarital affairs. The openly bisexual Kahlo had affairs with both men and women, including Josephine Baker. Rivera knew of and tolerated her relationships with women, but her relationships with men made him jealous. For her part, Kahlo was furious when she learned that Rivera had an affair with her younger sister, Cristina. The couple eventually divorced, but remarried in 1940. Their second marriage was as turbulent as the first. Their living quarters often were separate, although sometimes adjacent. There were frequent lovers between Frida and Diego, such as Leon Trotsky and Dorothy Hale."

Disregarding the fact that Cristina was Kahlo's younger sister, it feels pretty similar.

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