'Death Has No Master' Review: Asia Argento Stars in Slow-Burn Thriller About a Venezuelan Plantation Heiress
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Ryan Lattanzio
Toasted golden, schmeared with insight. Top of the rack.
Summary
A review of the slow-burn thriller "Death Has No Master" starring Asia Argento, who plays the heiress to a Venezuelan cacao plantation who returns home to find the occupants unwilling to leave. The review discusses Argento's distinctive cinematic persona, her career associations with notable auteurs, and her controversial public history involving MeToo allegations against Harvey Weinstein and subsequent misconduct allegations against herself.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledIt's highly reductive to say, but there's a genre in festival and arthouse cinema, and it's simply called 'Asia Argento.'
The component parts include herself, a fashionable, high-ish brow, and maybe trashy auteur (Abel Ferrara, Olivier Assayas, Catherine Breillat, her own dad), a strong genre element, and dabs of very deliberate provocation.
The Italian actress is, of course, associated more recently with the early years of MeToo, which saw her as one of the most virulent direct accusers of Harvey Weinstein, after which she was embroiled in misconduct allegations of her own from former actor c
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