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The Heat of the Moments...


Hot ! Hot !! Hot !!!
Asia Argento triple-hyphenates (director-writer-actress) her first full length drama.
The film is considered to be semiautobiographical in nature but deals with the fictional Anna Batiste is "the loneliest girl in the world" who is the top actress in Italy and posed to be unleashed upon the stage of world cinema but takes herself down a path that leads her to get involved in many bad life altering situations.
She is ultimately used up and spit out by sleazy Hollywood producers, rock stars, druggies, photographers and a sordid list of leeches that leave her alone, pregnant and running mad through the streets of Paris.

I'm very impressed with the energy that Argento injects into the film.
She clearly borrows from some of the well-known directors she has worked with in the past (including her father Dario ) but it all works in her favor.
A rich color scheme is used throughout the film that sometimes gives an ethereal feel that is sometimes jarring.
The script matches the direction, a little disjointed but it works for the characters spiral into agony.
Her acting and the cast around her are amazing, her believable portrait of the character throughout the peaks and valleys of her life.

The easiest topic for one to write about would be something involving yourself.
I mean, why try to do any work and dig deeply into someone else's soul, when you've got ample loads of material lingering within yourself
You know a lot more about yourself than about anyone else -- and of course you're going to make yourself into a sympathetic character, right ?
But the major obstacle in putting out your thinly-veiled autobiographical work for public consumption is that people will not necessarily think that you are brave for telling a story about yourself, but that you are narcissistic for wallowing in your own pain and misery instead of looking outward and trying to reflect upon the rest of the world.

Scarlet Diva's not a bad film.
I got a fair bit of entertainment value out of it -- its obvious that Asia Argento put a lot of herself into this production, and I can admire that.
The movie has that low-budget, gritty and "cutting-edge " look to it, and that does keep things interesting without getting too annoying.
While the story isn't deep or overly complex, I did enjoy witnessing these sordid musings of an actress who feels trapped in her career.

【Joe Coleman】 Scarlet Diva 【Francesca D'Aloja】
Deep Inside Asia Argento...

"Scarlet Diva" is a film that will no doubt be seen as narcissistic.
It was written, directed and starred by Asia Argento, and its clearly meant to be autobiographical -- since the woman in this story, like Asia, is a successful Italian actress who tries to break free from the unfulfilling life of being a "star" by hoping to get a semi-autobiographical movie made called.... you guessed it, Scarlet Diva.
Other little bits that occur in this film seem related to a few things I've read about Argento in the Internet Movie Database -- so it seems clear that Scarlet Diva is really the story of Asia Argento.
So, sure, its pretty self-indulgent -- but I liked it anyway.

Drugs are pretty common too, and are involved in a scary situation during a photo-shoot when one of the two people give her "special k", which seems to be a more potent version of cocaine, but I know nothing about drugs.
Of course, she takes it, and has a freak-out which results in her nearly drowning in the swimming pool.
After some crazy drug-induced dreams , she wakes up to find that the two people, a male and a female, are sleeping naked on either side of her, making it obvious that instead of helping the poor girl out, they took sexual advantage of her.

One night at a club, Anna enters into what could easily be another typical mindless-sex sort of situation, but which, for her, at least, develops into…well, something.
She meets the lead singer of an Australian rock band , and for some inexplicable reason -- although I'm sure that this isn't the first time for Anna -- a spark ignites between them.
Almost immediately, the two find a hotel room and have sex --
but, for Anna, this isn't just a routine fucking, but something really special.
While I doubt that having sex within a couple of hours after first meeting is "special " in any way , I could feel the pain and desperation in her words when she says "This is the first time I made love -- before, I was a wh-re. ", and "I'm the most loneliest girl in the world. "

The movie was shot on digital video , and the colors and tones of the film are quite vivid and often cryptic.
And in particular, there's a metaphorical nightmare sequence when Anna is pregnant that is jarring.
Much of the moments in this film resemble the best shots of Dario's best movies (again, SUSPIRIA in its nightmares, and even European scenery is dark and wet and bleak ), and maybe she has a fruitful filmmaking future (Asia was giving up acting before this materialized, but I don't want her to stop yet now, do you ? ).
Argento gets something real authentic here, and I want to dedicate this cigarette toke to her…

Asia Argento proudly takes it all off.
She's got some wonderful ti…tattoos.
Vera Gemma appears buck naked, and Selen bares her double-D breasts.
The male nudity comes from Joe Coleman (it was like watching TERROR FIRMER all over again), the black man at the beginning, and I think maybe Jean Shepherd too.
And if you drink a shot of whiskey for every sexual situation Anna gets into, you'd probably make Keith Richards seem sober.....


It's a hard movie to take, but it sets out to do what Asia wanted with gusto.
It's ambitious, sexy, perverse, voyeuristic, hedonistic and pure vanity, but not in ridiculous overkill, despite how extreme this film can get.
And Asia Argento is well on her way to becoming as infamous as her father is.