Anna Battista / Asia Argento - ' The best actress of the year', as a voice announces on the first line of the film 'a whore', as she puts it - throws herself on a planetary crusade (Rome / Locarno / Paris /Naples / Rome / Milan / London / Los Angeles / Amsterdam / Rome / Paris) of stereotyped situations: she's late on the set because she's having sex with a big black man on her trailer she answers boldly to journalists frees her best friend from bondage, buys hash in Paris she falls in love with a singer etcetera. (IMDB synopsis) Scarlet Diva is a novel of radical dismantling.
