Frida Kahlo will be back in pop culture conversation soon, as Netflix prepares to produce a series with the involvement of Gabriel Ripstein and Patricia Riggen. An adaptation of French author Claire Berest’s biographical book, Rien n’est noir, the makers of the series have not cast the actors yet. While it has not been confirmed, it seems that the series might be a Mexican series.
VP of Content for Mexico at Netflix, Carolina Leconte, released the following statement in the Deadline report regarding the series:
“It’s a daring proposal that takes us into the most intimate spaces of two figures we feel have been exhausted by myth, but whose true story we have not yet dared to face directly.”
It seems that the series will follow Kahlo and her husband, Diego Rivera. The official synopsis for Rien n’est noir reads:
“Let’s live the life of Frida Kahlo ! Viva la vida. After her accident Frida Kahlo has lost everything: her body, her fiancé Alejandro and her bold spirit but, lying recuperating, she discovers the power of colour. And as if obsessed, she knows that her future is with Mexico’s most famous – and ugliest – muralist, the lady’s man Diego Rivera. And so she sets out to find him and gives him no choice but to love her in return. Together they will experience wild parties, success, scandal, travel and affairs. They will tear each other part and get back together. And they will paint. How to tell the story of a legend? Claire Berest succeeds in bringing to life this mythical couple – Frida and Diego, Diego and Frida – who form a single being, a two-headed monster. The author takes us headlong into the upheavals of communist Mexico, the beginnings of American capitalism, the Europe of the surrealists and, above all, all-consuming love.”
What is Netflix’s Frida Kahlo series about?
Considering the series is adapting Claire Berest’s 2019 book, the show will see how Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s works were influenced by the social conditions of their times. As of now, very few details about the series are available because the Netflix project is in its early stages. The streaming giant confirmed the series this week with the following press release statement:
“Netflix is developing a series that delves into the passionate and turbulent lives of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, exploring how their love, betrayals, and work were shaped by a political, social, and artistic context in constant effervescence. Told from the most intimate side of the Dove and the Elephant, it follows the story of a woman who refuses to be just a muse and decides to tell her own version of pain, and of a man struggling to sustain his creative genius in the face of his contradictions—revealing how their relationship became an engine, a battlefield, and a public spectacle. The series is the story of a bomb wrapped in silk; a bomb that is the two of them, that is Mexico, and that is, inevitably, the entire world. Directed by Patricia Riggen and Gabriel Ripstein, produced by Mónica Lozano of Alebrije Producciones, and adapted from the evocative prose of Claire Berest under the guidance of María Renée Prudencio as head writer, this series reminds us that, despite the passage of time, we are still driven by the same forces: the irreducible desire to live, to love without half-measures, and to seek in art a way to survive pain.”
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Edited by Ravikumar N