Rivera and Kahlo 1

[joanna bujes]

At 04:28 PM 01/28/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>It is no accident that most other peoples on earth would probably
>understand such a melodrama with all its self-reflexive metaphors
>intact---and most in the US wouldn't, much less have any sympathy at
>for it. In the many evolving rounds from their legend three quarters
>of a century ago, it is now become the drama of Empire against Earth,
>what the US is doing today, now, immediately.

Ugh-- the movie's sense of history is laughable, pitiable, etc. I mean, it 
makes "Amadeus" look like something directed by Eisenstein -- by 
comparison. And, Amadeus, by my standards was only-just-OK....though I have 
enjoyed watching it with my kids many times since the first (disappointing) 
viewing.

The only living American director who can handle/understand/represent a 
historical consciousness is Ang Lee, and I don't know what the hell he's 
doing these days.

Joanna
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