Scarlet Diva (2000) DVD

Starring	Asia Argento, Jean Shepard, Herbert Fritsch, Daria Nicolodi
Director	Asia Argento
Genres	Drama

Scarlet Diva

The debut film effort from celebrity horror director Dario Argento's daughter, Asia Argento, SCARLET DIVA is a rambunctious, egocentric vanity project shot on digital video. The sassy and erotic Argento conjures a meandering and brashly compelling world of violence, sex, drugs, and rock and roll, with herself at the center playing an alter ego, Anna Battista. Following Battista, a celebrated and debauched actress, through her breakneck adventures, the crisply photographed film evokes the fast cut style of music videos. As the wildly inventive plot veers towards the fantastical, Argento shines as the hard living Battista who withstands myriad sexual liaisons, pesky adoration from fans and award ceremonies, lecherous producers and the heartbreak of being abandoned by a drug addicted rock star whose baby she is carrying. The futuristic urban soap opera inventively melds satire, melodrama, and fantasy film to create a highly personal and visionary narrative that reflects the disintegrating boundaries of media and morals heralded by the arrival of the 21st Century.

Starring	Asia Argento, Jean Shepard, Herbert Fritsch, Daria Nicolodi, Francesca D'Aloja, Joe Coleman, Vera Gemma, Justinian Kfoury
Director	Asia Argento
Studio	MIA VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT LTD
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 31 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English, Italian
Released	DVD: 21 Apr 2003 Production year: 2000
Format	DVD

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25 out of 25 people found this review helpful

I've heard this one already...

First off, I like Asia Argento. I really do. She seems nice. But have you ever had a friend of a friend that everyone thinks is kind of slutty, but that you think is actually really nice and misunderstood? And then you make the mistake of letting her bore you rigid at a party with endless stories about her frankly unsettling sex life? You try not to look bored and nod while she espouses opinions which she thinks are 'challenging', and pray to God that she doesn't show you some of her second-rate Sylvia Plath rip-off poetry. And you realise, yeah, she is kind of misunderstood, but she's really boring and I'm not gaining anything by listening to her witter on about her precocious life.

'Scarlet Diva' is like 90mins of that.
- - Ruairi from Bedfordshire
  - Posted 07 Oct 2004 15:29
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

So bad, it's ummm bad!

This really is a terrible film. I felt that it had great potential, and would be really interested. But it was quite the opposite. The characters have no feelings, and you have no reason to either like or hate them, you just end up not caring about them. The film didn't flow well, the story was none existent, and it was just rubbish. I don't want to resort to saying 'it's rubbish', as I would like to give some more detail, but it really is shockingly bad. A very poor film. Infact, one of the worst films that I have ever seen (and i've seen lots). This film has no redeeming factors at all. Avoid at all costs!!!
- - A Diddy from Down South, England
  - Posted 16 Jan 2006 19:16
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