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(The film is now available on Prime Video after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.)
In this case, however, much of the material has been drawn from the Mexican artists visual diaries.
If anything, Gutierrez errs on the side of naked intimacy.
Gutierrez has also done something that some might consider a sacrilege.
Its also trying to embody art evolving beyond the frame.
Gutierrez clearly sees Fridas life in the work and not the other way around.
Symbolism suggests metaphor, analysis, artful avoidance.
But Fridas paintings are almost too raw, too exposed.
Images of breakage, puncture, and cutting run throughout her work.
Gutierrez embraces this underlying truth behind Kahlos work, and renders it cinematically.
As a result, an artist who died 70 years ago gets a film portrait of arresting immediacy.
Gutierrez gives us a Frida we can believe in.
