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Summary: Self-Indulgent Home Movie
Review: "Scarlet Diva" stars the spoiled, famous Italian actress Asia Argento as a spoiled famous Italian actress. In the interview before and after the movie, Ms. Argento explains that the movie is very autobiographical. She plays Anna, a celaberty with everything money can buy, except happieness. She tries to drown her sorrows and tramatic childhood dramas with drugs, sex, and ciggerettes, but it dosn't work out, instead everything gets worse. She has a one night stand with an Australian grung rocker, gets pregnet, and then finds out he is marries. This is a very deep movie, with a Argento baring everything; her body, her mind, and yes, her soul. Asia Argento wrote and directed "Scarlet Diva", and she explains in t he interview found on the DVD, she nbeeded to to deal with very horrible childhood memories. I liked it; I thought it was daring, very revealing, and an intematly personable film, and I appreicated her sharing it. She says before the movie begins "Don't feel sorry for me, I am not the 'loneliest girl in the world'". Well, I couldn't help it, after the treatment by everyone to her, I just wanted to wrap my arms around her and assure her that everything would be ok. But I would have been lying, and Asia Argento would know it.
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Summary: Scarlet Diva
Review: "Scarlet Diva" stars the spoiled, famous Italian actress Asia Argento as a spoiled famous Italian actress. In the interview before and after the movie, Ms. Argento explains that the movie is very autobiographical. She plays Anna, a celaberty with everything money can buy, except happieness. She tries to drown her sorrows and tramatic childhood dramas with drugs, sex, and ciggerettes, but it dosn't work out, instead everything gets worse. She has a one night stand with an Australian grung rocker, gets pregnet, and then finds out he is marries. This is a very deep movie, with a Argento baring everything; her body, her mind, and yes, her soul. Asia Argento wrote and directed "Scarlet Diva", and she explains in t he interview found on the DVD, she nbeeded to to deal with very horrible childhood memories. I liked it; I thought it was daring, very revealing, and an intematly personable film, and I appreicated her sharing it. She says before the movie begins "Don't feel sorry for me, I am not the 'loneliest girl in the world'". Well, I couldn't help it, after the treatment by everyone to her, I just wanted to wrap my arms around her and assure her that everything would be ok. But I would have been lying, and Asia Argento would know it.
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Summary: Great film, great director
Review: Asia Argento made a great film! And the DVD extras are very, very good!
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Summary: Asia's demons
Review: Asia Argento stars as Anna, an Italian actress who is way out of control. She is the self described "lonliest girl in the world." She trys to cope with her pain of alianation and traumatic childhood memories through sex, drugs, and a baby, all of which fail her miserably. Every attempt at happiness ends in disater. She decides to try to write a screen play, and that is the only thing that she has any positive control over. This is a very dark look at being a star, and it is based on Asia's life (in the interview on the DVD, she admits the movie, which Argento also wrote and directed, is extreamly autobiographical), and it is pretty bleak. The movie ends more or less the way it starts, she is still lost, with no understanding of how to make herself happy. Asia says in the introduction not to feel sorry for her, but you really can't help it. She is lost, and you only want to help. The people that Anna runs into in the movie are all out to use her, for fame, drugs, or just sex. I liked it, but it isn't for everyone. It's pretty grim.
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Summary: scarlet diva
Review: Asia Argento's 'Scarlet Diva' is a groundbreaking film. It has a realism, an intimacy, an intensity that has rarely been seen before.It seems heavily inspired by Fellini's '8 1/2' (with its symbolism and its hynotic images of ugliness and its bold cuts from past to present to dream to nightmare) but with a kind of dream-like detachment. It has the feel of something important, something radical, something violent in its non-conformity.It is a film made in fury and in passion, detested by practically everyone, misunderstood, trampled on, insulted. It comes as a radical answer to the timid state of most films. It has the radical self-destructiveness of 'La Derniere Femme', Marco Ferreri's disturbing answer to censorship, in which Gerard Depardieu cuts off his penis
in one of the most shocking (and most ideaologically neccessary but entirely unexpected) scenes ever filmed...'Scarlet Diva' is a bold, nihilistic meditation on destruction and creation...Those who see the last shot, a radical religious reference, as a mindless shock attempt, will find that there is much thought behind the symbolism: Argento is saying that through enough destruction we become innocent again...That death is simply a return to the womb...She finds a poetry in the violence she depicts. The film is a kind of filmed-essay: a brutal confession illustrated by memories, dreams, nightmares and hallucinations (much like in '8 1/2')...Free of moral obligations, Argento depicts a hallucinatory venture into her own destruction (and eventual return to innocence. A masterpiece.
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Summary: Sometimes Painful But Very Strong Account of Actress's Life
Review: Asia Argento, daughter of Italian horror maestro Dario, has been a gifted actress on her own before her appearance in "XXX" with Vin Diesel, after her good turns in some English-speaking films like "B-Monkey" (directed by Michael Radford, "Il Postino" fame and "New Rose Hotel" by none other than Abel Ferrara. And her film debut goes back to the year 1985. Considering the fact she was born in 1975, her career is as memorable as that of Drew Barrymore, and it is only natural that Asia goes on to direct her own film, which turns out "Scarlet Diva," full of, some say, her autobiographical elements.The film traces a life of Italian actress Anna Battista, who is at the height of popularity. But despite of her fame, her private life is terribly bleak: in short, sex, drug, and violence. But in Paris, she meets her destiny, that is, a musician from Australia named Kirk, with whom she shares a bed one night. After the meeting with him, Anna attempts to change her life, taking more seriously of her life. But the surrounding people in the industy would not listen. The Hollywood producer doesn't hear her plead to be taken seriously, and only desires her body, not the scrpit she wrote. "Scarlet Diva" goes on like this. The film suffers from its repetitions of the heroine's agony, which looks often as if having no end. Though the camera brings the atomosphere of the place to life vividly (with digital video), the narrative is not particularly effective. We know from the beginning where the film would go, and it goes there. But the strong point of the film does not lie there, but in Asia's convincing performance as a tormented heroine. You may feel this film looks self-indulgent, and that tendency should be admitted. But her good acting, very emotional and true to herself, raises the film to higher level, showing that she is more than a daughter of famous director, or a psuedo-Bond girl in Hollywood movies. Many interesting names appear in addition to painter Joe Coleman. Vera Jemma (Italian actor Giuliano Gemma's daughter) as Anna's friend, and Daria Nicolodi (Asia's mother) as Anna's mother. The soundtrack music is done by John Hughes, the son of much famous director of the same name (of Molly Ringwald films), and the film is produced by Dario and Claudio Argento, the latter being Asia's uncle.
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Summary: Now this is what I call a debut.
Review: Asia Argento. By far one of the most fearless actresses of our time. While most reviews are quick to point of her father and her famous last name. In Scarlet Diva Asia steps out on her own and bares her soul and other body parts. This is movie is for Asia Argento Fans and for true movie lovers. I loved this movie and for a first time film it was excellent. Good work Asia. Keep it up.
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Summary: Pretentious
Review: Biggest piece of pretentious (...) I've seen in a long long time!!!
It's all very autobiographical about this really "cool" and "talented" actress Anna Battista who is adored by her public and so wants to get into directing. Daria Nicolodi plays Anna's mother. (Who else?) And Asia is shown as nude as can be involved in a handful of sex scenes that are at times bordering on the harder side of softcore (all of course in the interest of "honesty"). And that's about the only good thing that can be said about the movie.
The film just screams "Me! Me! Me!" Pity that not everyone who is director, writer and actor in one is automatically an Orson Welles. Prior to the start we even have a clip of Asia advising us that we probably heard already how bad the film is, but that it REALLY is very good (shouldn't that be up to the viewer to decide???) and that it had saved her life blah blah.
This movie has - hands on stomach - some of most pathetic and amateurish performances I have seen in quite some time. It so wants to be arty, hip and experimental and is even shot in three different languages: English, Italian and French. I would have actually preferred if the English parts had also been subtitled as I really haven't got a clue what Ms Argento was mumbling most of the time. In actual fact this ended up being the first DVD where I completely gave up on following the director's commentary: I had to really crank up the sound on it, and still found it hard to hear what she had to say (contentwise: very little anyway). For someone who is supposed to be such an expressive actress, Asia simply has the most boring, dull and expressionless voice I have ever heard recorded.
I was never the biggest Asia Argento fan, but after watching this flick my respect for her dropped to new lows. This lady has one of the biggest Egos in the biz, with unfortunately very little talent or trace of humour to boost and is an utter moron full of pseudo-intellectual pretensions.
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Summary: oh my god
Review: direted by Asia Argento and shes nude, plainly nude. great movie but story is trimmed and its boosted up of course by Argento in the buff, fans will like her for this one and daddy Dario should be proud he made a goddess. yummy Argento
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Summary: Don't Believe The Hype
Review: Don't waste your time or your money on this movie. Asia is VERY hot, but this movie is terribly boring. There aren't even enough skin or sex scenes featuring Asia to make it worth watching. It's a poor, low-budget, student-film with a horrible soundtrack.
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