Scarlet Diva [Blu-ray]

Director: Asia Argento Asia Argento

Overview

Shot on digital video, this no-holds-barred, semi-autobiographical film from Italian actress/model Asia Argento presents the bleak decent of a popular actress into a haze of drugs and overindulgence. Anna Battista (Argento) has seemingly everything anyone could ever want, yet sometimes everything is never enough. Fed up with going through the motions as an actor, Battista aspires to seek a career as a director so that she may truly explore her currently latent artistic talent. The queen of excess, Battista's attempts to realize her true talent are time and again shattered as the she is used and abused by everyone she comes into contact with. After a one-night fling with an emotionally distant and uncaring Australian rock star (Jean Sheperd) leaves the self-confessed whore a lovelorn mother-to-be, Battista's desperation to bring her story to the screen finds her dealing with a shady American producer (Joe Coleman), an agent reluctant to assist her in branching out, and a heroin-addicted former filmmaker who is as close to ending his life as Battista is to beginning hers. Her career in disarray and her uncertain future growing increasingly grim, Battista embarks on a numbing binge of sex and drugs that takes her from Europe to America and back again. Attempting to seek-out the father of her unborn child and find some sense of stability, Battista finds the truth about her one-time lover.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/25/2018
UPC:	0859686006697
Original Release:	2000
Rating:	NR
Source:	Film Movement
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:31:00
Sales rank:	28,354

Special Features

Two Audio Commentaries by Asia Argento (2002 & 2018); Looking into the Eye of the Cyclops with Joe Coleman; Asia Argento Interview; Making of Scarlet Diva; Original Release Promos; New essay by Kier-La Janisse

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Asia Argento	Anna Battista
Jean Shepard	Kirk Vaines
Vera Gemma	Veronica
Fabio Camilli	Pierre
Joe Coleman	Mr. Paar
Luce Caponegro Selen	Quelou
Herbert Fritsch	Aaron
Daria Nicoldi	Anna's Mother
Justinian Kfoury	J-Bird
Vanessa Crane	Luke
Schooly-D	Hash Man
Alessandro Villari	Hamid
Leo Gullotta	Dr. Vessi
Paolo Bonacelli	Swiss Journalist
Jeff Alexander	Tyrone
David Brandon	Director
Robert Sommer	Cesare, the Actor
Gloria Pirrocco	Anna as a Child
Leonardo Servadio	Alioscia as a Child
Deborah Restante	Simona
Massimo De Lorenzo	Drunk
Giovanna Papa	Fast Food Woman
Taiyo Yamanouchi	Japanese Man
Angelica Di Majo	Piercing Girl
Jean Shepherd	Actor
Francesca d'Aloja	margherita
Daria Nicolodi	Anna's Mother
Gianluca Arcopinto	Actor
John Hughes	Composer

Technical Credits

Asia Argento

Asia Argento	Director,Screenwriter,Producer,Producer,Executive Producer
Sergio Stivaletti	Special Effects
Andrea Lancia	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial 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.