Scarlet Diva (2000) on Netflix
Anna Battista, a young Italian film actress, wants to shed her boy-toy image and direct a semi-biographical film about herself. Her excesses and an exploitative industry stand in her way.
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Plot summary
Anna Battista is a 24-year-old Italian-born actress with a popular international career. After working in Rome and winning a film award in Milan, she wants to shed her boy-toy image and be taken seriously as an artist, so she sets out to write and direct a semi-biographical film about herself called Scarlet Diva. In Paris she tries to help her best friend leave an abusive relationship. In Los Angeles a film producer proves shady rather than useful. Alongside her plans runs a chaotic stretch of excess, drugs and sex that carries her between Europe and America, and her own appetites and the indifference of the people around her stand in the way of what she wants.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Scarlet Diva (2000)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Asia Argento revealed that the scene in Scarlet Diva where a producer tries to assault her character was based on her own alleged sexual assault by Harvey Weinstein, with the difference that in the film she ran away.
- Asia Argento said the sex scenes in Scarlet Diva went beyond acting and were real, though no penetration was shown. She wanted the camera to capture what real sex did to the actors' faces and bodies.
- Scarlet Diva was shot entirely on digital video, which made Asia Argento's debut one of the earliest feature films made with that technology.
