Topic: Asia Argento

starring Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aattou, Roxana Mesquida, Claude Sarraute, Yolade Moreau, Michael Lonsdale Marigny and Vellini are involved in a torrid love affair that has lasted ten years. The film opens with Marigny trying to convince his fiancee's grandmother ...
Dario Argento's The Stendhal Syndrome is based on the novel by psychiatrist and author Graziella Magherini. After Anna is raped by Alfredo (while experiencing Stendhal Syndrome, caused by becoming disoriented while under the influence of beautiful art), she must also play ...

Movie reviews: Boarding Gate

Being an avid fan of director Dario Argento, it's a given that every movie that features his daughter Asia Argento is going to be a compulsory viewing. My interest slightly was already a bit dim simply because the second billed cast ...
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things tells the story of a small boy passed around from person to person, but always haunted by his mother. When he tries to return home, his mother, Sarah (Asia Argento), convinces him his foster parents ...
I'm a huge Dario Argento fan and I was looking forward to seeing how he was intending to wrap up his Three Mothers trilogy following the exceptional classic SUSPERIA and the mediocre yet fun film INFERNO but I was not expecting ...

Indian actress joins Cannes film festival jury

Indian actress Sharmilla Tagore is to be the ninth and final member of the Cannes film festival jury, organisers said Monday.The jury, which announces the winner of the Palme d'Or for best film, is this year headed by star French ...
The trunk show for Tinc - the tiny San Francisco-based fashion label - is New York Fashion Week's most achingly hip, most secretive event. In October 2005, Stephen Beachy, a reporter from New York magazine, published his suspicions that JT LeRoy was the ...

DVD review: The Last Mistress

The predictably shocking director Catherine Breillat takes on a period drama starring the frequently shocking all-purpose Euro femme fatale, Asia Argento. The result is only shocking in so far as we're unused to seeing a couple of nude sex scenes in ...

French Twist

A 19th-century bodice-ripper starring Asia Argento as a lady of a certain reputation sounds destined for a two-word summary: Argento is Vellini, the titular half of the story's liaison dangereuse who's grown used to the 10-year open relationship she's ...

Movie Review: The Last Mistress

Staying true to her singular feminist roots and psychosexual explorations of the inherent imbalances between men and women, but stepping away from prosthetic penises, fun with menstrual blood and brutal parallels of symbolic emotional rape, Catherine Breillat has assembled her most accessible ...