Argento, at only 26, brings a youthful, out-to-change-the-world aggressiveness to the project, as if she's cut open a vein and bled the raw film stock.
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11/07/02
Scarlet Diva (2000)
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Reviews Counted:22
Fresh:11
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.6/10
Theatrical Release:Aug 9, 2002 Limited
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Asia Argento, Joe Coleman, Jean Shepherd, Herbert Fritsch
Director: Asia Argento
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Reviews for Scarlet Diva
When twentysomething hotsies make movies about their lives, hard-driving narcissism is a given, but what a world we'd live in if Argento's Hollywood counterparts ... had this much imagination and nerve.
08/06/02
Top CriticIt'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.
09/19/02
Top CriticThis is such a dazzlingly self-assured directorial debut that it’s hard to know what to praise first.
09/19/02
Scarlet Diva has a voyeuristic tug, but all in all it's a lot less sensational than it wants to be.
08/16/02
Top CriticAsia authors herself as Anna Battista, an Italian superstar and aspiring directress who just happens to be her own worst enemy.
08/05/02
A pretentious mess.
03/08/02
Beneath the film's obvious determination to shock at any cost lies considerable skill and determination, backed by sheer nerve.
08/08/02
Amid the shock and curiosity factors, the film is just a corny examination of a young actress trying to find her way.
01/17/03
...may work as an addictive guilty pleasure but the material never overcomes its questionable satirical ambivalence. This Scarlet's letter is A...as in aimless, arduous, and arbitrary.
09/01/02
It's difficult to discern if this is a crazy work of disturbed genius or merely 90 minutes of post-adolescent Electra rebellion.
10/20/02
The cinematic equivalent of scabies ... and I mean that as a compliment.
03/03/06
The film, while not exactly assured in its execution, is notable for its sheer audacity and openness.
08/16/02
Top CriticIt is, by conventional standards, a fairly terrible movie ... but it is also weirdly fascinating, a ready-made Eurotrash cult object. It is also, at times, curiously moving.
08/08/02
Top CriticA clutchy, indulgent and pretentious travelogue and diatribe against... well, just stuff. Watching Scarlet Diva, one is poised for titillation, raw insight or both. Instead, we just get messy anger, a movie as personal therapy.
09/23/02
As original and insightful as last week's episode of Behind the Music.
09/20/02
"Argento splatters her colorful life on the screen like an adolescent's diary, trusting others to sort through the fascinating mess."
08/08/02
This is an egotistical endeavor from the daughter of horror director Dario Argento (a producer here), but her raw performance and utter fearlessness make it strangely magnetic.
08/09/02
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