Frida Kahlo

Memories still linger of the impressive Opening Ceremonies to the Olympic and Paralympic Games held in London in 2012, and The Four Fridas is best viewed as a (partly) successful coda to those spectacles. Bradley Hemmings, the director here, who was also responsible for the scene-setter to the Paralympics, writes in the brochure that Frida Kahlo was one of the representative images of the disabled he originally considered for that event; and now he has returned to her life as the basis of a meditation on the relationship between creativity and the overcoming of disability and persecution.