Starring: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Antonio Banderas, Ashley Judd, Geoffrey Rush.

Director: Julie Taymor.

Producers: Lizz Speed, Roberto Sneider, Jay Polstein, Nancy Hardin, Lindsay Flickinger, Salma Hayek, Sarah Green.

Drama and Romance.

This film tells the true story of Mexican painter and 20th-century icon Frida Kahlo (Hayek), focusing on her often-rocky relationship with husband Diego Rivera (Molina) and their place in Mexican society. Included in the mix will be David Siqueiros (Banderas), Rivera’s rival in the Mexican art world, Tina Modotti (Judd), a famed Italian photographer, and Nelson Rockefeller (Edward Norton), who famously contracted Rivera to paint the lobby mural of Rockefeller Center, only to renege because it included a portrait of Lenin. Others in their social circle included Russian leader and refugee Leon Trotsky (Rush), muralist Jean Charlot, painter Pablo O’Higgins, composer Silvestre Revueltas, and photographer Edward Weston. In addition to being a great artist, Kahlo was also a bisexual and a communist, struggling with an abusive husband, a life of terrible pain following a trolley accident, the amputation of a leg and finally, drug and alcohol abuse that killed her at age 47.