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CAST & CREW
Asia Argento, Joe Coleman, Jean Shepherd
Directed by Asia Argento
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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. more...
MPAA RATING
Not Rated
RUNTIME
1 hour, 31 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Aug 9, 2002
Video: Nov 26, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Media Blasters Releasing
GENRE
Foreign Films, Italian, Comedy, Drama, Doomed Lovers, Drama (General)
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 "As home movie gone haywire, it's pretty enjoyable, but as sexual manifesto, I'd rather listen to old Tori Amos records."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, NEW TIMES
""Argento splatters her colorful life on the screen like an adolescent's diary, trusting others to sort through the fascinating mess.""
-- Scott Tobias, ONION AV CLUB
 "As original and insightful as last week's episode of Behind the Music."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"A 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."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"...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."
-- Frank Ochieng, MOVIE EYE
"Beneath the film's obvious determination to shock at any cost lies considerable skill and determination, backed by sheer nerve."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Asia authors herself as Anna Battista, an Italian superstar and aspiring directress who just happens to be her own worst enemy."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"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."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
-- Click to read the article.
-- Gregory Avery, NITRATE ONLINE
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"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."
-- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST
"It 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."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"The film, while not exactly assured in its execution, is notable for its sheer audacity and openness."
-- Frank Scheck, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Scarlet Diva has a voyeuristic tug, but all in all it's a lot less sensational than it wants to be."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"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."
-- Manohla Dargis, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"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."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
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