Asia's libidinal energy in "The Last Mistress"

indieWIRE: NYFF '07 Critics Notebook 2 | Sisters Doing it For Themselves at New York Fest; and a Little Boy on Boy Too: "Asia Argento portrays an irresistible Spanish courtesan under the spell of Fu'ad Ait Aatou's dandy; she's Id to his refined (and sexually inert) Superego of a wife. Ex-model Ait Aatou's overwhelming beauty takes center stage, though Argento's libidinal energy makes him seem like a case study in ennui. You can't beat a woman's fire."

"Last Mistress Review" at The Huffington Post

Patricia Zohn: A Woman is a Woman is a Woman - Entertainment on The Huffington Post: "Though Catherine Breillat's sexpot heroine in The Last Mistress, La Vellini, played to simmering perfection by Asia Argento, is both centuries and continents away from Margot, they share this: they derive their strength from their power over their men and when that is withdrawn they are utterly confounded and miserable."

Asia Argento devoid of shame and fear

Vancouver International Film Fest's Best Flicks :: Entertainment :: thetyee.ca: "The daughter of Dario Argento of Suspiria and giallo fame, Asia Argento has recently become something of a dark queen of the cinema. At the Cannes film festival, she ruled all. We haven't had a dark siren this enticing since the days of Ava Gardener. With her purring growl of a voice, and serpentine presence, Argento is a nice contrast to the heaping load of white bread actresses around. She is also seemingly a woman devoid of fear or shame. So, if you're in the mood for a steaming haunch of raunch, Ms. Argento delivers, getting her freak on in two films Abel Ferrara's Go Go Tales and Catherine Breillat's costume drama The Last Mistress."

Dario Argento Week at the Hell Plaza Oktoberfest!

Adam Jahnke's Hell Plaza Oktoberfest!: The Cat O'Nine Tails: "This was Argento's second film and in its best moments, you can see him experimenting with the subjective angles and roving camera that would become a trademark. There is fun to be had with The Cat O' Nine Tails. The best death scenes, including one involving a train, are extreme and, if not exactly shocking, at least surprising. There are several fun set-pieces and the meandering story offers a number of quirky, off-beat character moments. This meandering story also suggests that Argento was already becoming bored with the giallo formula. Franciscus isn't bad in the lead and Malden is fun to watch although both of them occasionally seem to be phoning it in."

Masters of Horror Review: Dario Argento's "Jenifer"

Blu-ray Review: Masters of Horror: Season One - Vol. Two: "'Jenifer' was the first American production to be directed by Dario Argento since the anthology 'Two Evil Eyes' and was written by actor Steven Weber (himself no stranger to horror, having starred in TV's 'The Shining' and the recent 'Nightmares & Dreamscapes') based on a long-forgotten 1974 short story by Bruce Jones. A sort of fright version of 'Lolita,' the story’s titular character Jenifer uses her stunning looks and rampant sex appeal to destroy the bodies and souls of all the men who cross her path. Pity poor police officer Frank Spivey (Weber), who saves Jenifer's life when he finds her at the mercy of a deranged, ax-wielding suitor -- only to find out in the 'horrific twist ending' that that no good deed goes unpunished."

Dario Argento’s "Phantom of the Opera"

Dario Argento’s Phantom of the Opera - Ventura County Reporter: "Having thrown Leroux’s formula out the window, Italian horror king Dario Argento no doubt felt free to continue what was considered his own downward spiral into mediocrity in the ’90s with Il Fantasma dell’opera. If you simply refer to this flick by its Italian title, you’ll be in a much better frame of mind to appreciate its B-movie genius, and to note how well Argento handled the story of psychotic-hermit-meets-girl, brings-down-entire-opera-house."

Asia Argento profile at SWINDLE Magazine

Asia Argento - SWINDLE Magazine: "From birth, it was practically guaranteed that Asia Argento would grow up to be someone interesting. She was born into an Italian horror movie dynasty, for a start. Her father, Dario Argento, has made some of the blackest and bloodiest movies of the genre – slasher flicks like Suspiria, Profondo Rosso, and Tenebre. Her mother, Daria Nicolodi, an actress, met a gruesome end in many of them. The only things her father would read to her at bedtime were his movie scripts, and as a treat on her sixth birthday, little Asia was allowed to watch Poltergeist. Growing up Argento was clearly a barrel of laughs. “My father did horror movies and my mother was always being killed in these movies – but my childhood was not as extreme as you would think,” says the 30-year-old Asia (pronounced Ah-shee-a). “I had a certain detachment from it, and a lot of pride. I thought it was really cool....”"

The Passions of Asia Argento

SpoutBlog: The Passions of Asia Argento: "In her two films at the 2007 New York Film Festival, Asia Argento plays two sexual outlaws, two centuries apart. In Catherine Breillat’s The Last Mistress, she’s a kept woman who can’t keep away from her now-married former lover; in Abel Ferrara’s Go Go Tales, she’s a stripper and a whore. In Ferrara’s film, she cavorts with a wild dog on stage, for cash; in Breillat’s, Argento is the wild dog, in spite of her money and title, and she clutches the head of a tiger while in the throes of orgasm as if to prove it. In both films, Argento is tough and toxic; her body is on display constantly and yet there’s a never a sense that she’s in anything less than total control. In both films, Argento is at once ultra-feminine and masculine, sexy and “scary”, in a way that maybe hasn’t been seen on screen to this extent since the height of Marlene Dietrich...."

Dario & Asia video interview

Video Interview With Dario & Asia Argento! - BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM: "This past September B-D reporter Mike Periera chatted with the various filmmakers and stars of the Toronto International Film Festival's 'Midnight Madness' section. We have a bunch of them coming, but we wanted to kick it off with a bang - head on over to BDTV to watch our exclusive interview with director Dario Argento and star Asia Argento "

Claudio Simonetti's Daemonia to perform 'Mother of Tears' soundtrack

ESplatter.com: "If you live in the UK and have heard of a club called 'The Slimelight,' on December 1, Claudio Simonetti's new band Daemonia will be performing the entire soundtrack of 'Mother of Tears,' which Simonetti composed."

Mother of Tears coming to U.S. in 2008

www.skullring.org: Dario Argento's "Mother of Tears" To See U. S. Release in 2008: "Dario Argento's long awaited final installment in his 'Three Witches' trilogy, 'The Mother of Tears' is going to be released in the United States some time in 2008. It has already been shown at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada and it will be released in Italy this month. "