Clearly, many talented people lavished much effort on this production. Sadly, it never really engaged my emotions, and when it ended, I shrugged and felt vaguely disappointed. Frida feels like a patch work of bitter compromises, polished to a high gloss. It would have required a transcendent performance by Salma Hayek to lift it above the merely conventional, but she never really brings Frida Kahlo back to life, which, ironically, seems to have been Frida's wish.
