Scarlet Diva

Scarlet Diva is a semi-autobiographical film about the Italian actress and director Asia Argento’s life as an actress. A self-destructive streak in Anna Battista (Argento) pulls her into drugs, sex and other excesses. To combat this descent, she attempts to fulfill her creative side by becoming a film director. Battista’s attempts to realize her talent are thwarted by her desires and the uncaring responses of those around her.Scarlet Diva 2000.

As part of her plans to become a director and bring her story to the screen, Battista travels to Los Angeles but only meets a shady film producer (Joe Coleman). She falls in love with an uncaring Australian rock and roll star (Jean Sheperd), then finds out she is pregnant by him. But her life is still in disarray as she uses drugs to help herself feel better.In October 2017, Argento revealed that the scene in which the producer tries to assault the main character is based on the alleged sexual assault on her by Harvey Weinstein, except “In the movie […] I ran away” according to Argento.A young Italian actress, struggling with her personal demons, embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while soul-searching to find the path to redemption and love.Cinematic Self-Destruction for Fun and Profit 101: That’s Scarlet Diva in a nutshell, although the directorial debut from the progeny of Italian horror maestro Dario Argento and actress/author Daria Niccolodi is much more than the sum of its parts. Argento the younger has starred in a number of Eurotrash shockers in roles that might make other actresses flinch (her rape in The Stendahl Syndrome was particularly disturbing, choreographed as it was by her father, the director) and Scarlet Diva is something of a great leap forward in terms of disturbing images, graphic sex, and voraciously druggy appetites. All of which begs the question: Why? Fans and family already know of the ripe, curvy Argento’s penchant for theatrical insanity. Her offscreen life often appears calculated to freak out the moms and dads of the world (her own included)