Actress-turned-writer/director Asia Argento's angry, outspoken, semi-autobiographical rant of a film is strident and occasionally juvenile, but it packs an undeniable wallop. Twenty-four-year-old Italian starlet Anna Battista (Argento) is a hot commodity, but she's headed for an emotional meltdown. Awards and adulation do nothing to assuage her feeling that acting is hollow and futile, so Anna mouths off to journalists, has joyless sex with a string of men and women, scores drugs in sleazy neighborhoods and nearly drowns in a pool after recklessly snorting a line of Special-K during a fashion shoot. Her self-destructiveness is driven by a single-minded determination,...
Released:
2000
Rated:
NR
Length:
91 mins