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- 2002
- R
- Media Blasters
- 1 h 31 m
- 2002
- R
- Media Blasters
- 1 h 31 m
Summary The debut feature of Asia Argento, daughter of famed horror director Dario Argento, this film follows Anna Battista (Argento), a celebrated and debauched actress, through her breakneck adventures.
Directed By: Asia Argento
Written By: Asia Argento
- 2002
- R
- Media Blasters
- 1 h 31 m
- 2002
- R
- Media Blasters
- 1 h 31 m
Scarlet Diva
48
6.7
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Summary The debut feature of Asia Argento, daughter of famed horror director Dario Argento, this film follows Anna Battista (Argento), a celebrated and debauched actress, through her breakneck adventures.
Directed By: Asia Argento
Written By: Asia Argento
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
48
33% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
50% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
17% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
48
33% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
50% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
17% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
What a world we'd live in if Argento's Hollywood counterparts -- say, Sarah Michelle Gellar, or even Christina Ricci -- had this much imagination and nerve. Few of them, at any rate, have Argento's reserves of lonesome passion and unspigoted woe.
It's a demented kitsch mess (although the smeary digital video does match the muddled narrative), but it's savvy about celebrity and has more guts and energy than much of what will open this year.
Argento knows how to work her stuff, and the result is by turns saucy and grody, a fat lasagna of yesterday's "extreme" behavior dripping with Euro cheesiness.
Has a voyeuristic tug, but all in all it's a lot less sensational than it wants to be.
Certainly it's not for everyone, but fans of Euro-sleaze will groove on Argento's obvious charms and the film's dystopian thrill ride, while the rest will probably doze off dreaming Fassbinder dreams.
Permeated by a self-pitying, adolescent naïveté.
Italian actress, writer and director Asia Argento's performance in the godawful Scarlet Diva is one of those bawl, spit, scream and vomit exhibitions that provoke admiring applause in acting classes and great gales of laughter in theaters.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 User Ratings
6.7
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 User Ratings
6.7
60% Positive
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30% Mixed
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