FILM REVIEWS

SCARLET DIVA (2000)

Directed By: Asia Argento
Film Reviewed by: Adam Trash

Anna Battista, a popular young actress and "restless romantic" of 24, engages on a hedonistic, self-destructive spree across Europe and to America in an effort to reinvent herself as an "artist", hoping to shed her boytoy image and realize her aspirations to direct a semi-autobiographical film entitled "Scarlet Diva". After rescuing her friend from an abusive relationship, fleeing sleazy film producers in Los Angeles, and falling in love with a philandering rock star, Anna becomes pregnant and relies increasingly on drugs to cope with the heartbreak her ambitions have brought her, driving her deeper into fantasy and self-loathing.

Distributed by Media Blasters

Special features on DVD are director's commentary which is just like watching the movie over again, trailesr, photo gallery etc. If you are a fan of Asia's work you might LOVE this movie, or you might NOT like her work anymore after it. I give it ** stars out of four.