Bad acting... Asia please stop!

I don't know there's all that many young actresses that can act in three languages (Italian, French, and English). Many in America can't even act in one, and very, very few can act in more than one. As for European actresses I can't think of any of her age that really stand out. Actresses like Monica Belluci, Viginie Ledoyen, and Ludivine Sagnier have never really lived up to their initial promise. Paz Vega was pretty seriously miscast in her one big American movie "Spanglish". Cecile de France might have a career, but she doesn't yet compare to the previous generation of actresses like Isabel Adjani, Isabel Huppert, or Emmanuelle Beart.

As for "looking better", well, at least Asia takes her clothes off in movies. Most actresses her age, especially the American ones, not only aren't Meryl Streep acting-wise, but don't have the courage to do anything more risque than a "Maxim" centerfold. And as for her accent, I would rather listen to an intelligible foreign accent any day than suffer through an American Southern or "valley girl" accent in what is supposed to be a European period movie. I have nothing against the three actresses, but after suffering through Kirsten Dunst's accent in "Marie Antoinette", I have no intention of watching the likes of Scarlett Johansen and Natalie Portman in "The Other Boleyn Girl". It's all pretty relative really.

yeah, she is quite unconvincing as a beauty and vixen who makes the pretty boy fall for her so quickly. i still didn't get how they fell for each other. plus, her boobs are so fake.

on the other hand, her acting was like in a soft porn, which is better than Jenna is a lot of ways.

I don't have much of a sample of Asia Argento's acting -- just this film and Marie Antoinette (and I don't remember her in the latter) -- but I thought her performance in The Last Mistress was very good. The problem wasn't her acting, it was that the film's story was pretty lame.

The tramp stamp certainly looked wrong. Although tattoos date back before civilization, I doubt that they were commonplace among early 19th century French or Spanish ladies. The specific design was almost certainly anachronisitic.

The huge boobs may have been improbable in an age before implants, but they wouldn't be impossible. They certainly don't strain credibility as much as the tramp stamp.

I don't know enough French to defend or criticize her accent. But even if she did have a non-native French accent, her character was supposed to be Spanish, so she has an excuse for a non-native accent. She did a good job on her few lines of Spanish. I don't recall any other languages in the film, so if her English accent is bad it didn't affect the movie.

Oh well, reading your point Michael I realized I was quite heavy on my attack in the first instance.
I guess your point of view is just the right one and I should kill these flames born maybe just because one of her movies closed a very bad day :) stress ruins your life.

Asia, Do whatever you want, the world needs everyone of us(..oh well, thinking about politics I still have doubts about it). Sorry for my flaming.

PLF

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I can't think of a better casting choice either.

what a laugh. she was excellent for the part, and it has nothing to do with her beauty or her *beep* breasts, and everything to do with HOW well she played the character of this story. It's amazing how breillat manages to get so much out of her actors, because I'm not a fan of argento.

So it's not enough to establish that there's been a history of tattoos for at least the last five thousand years over at least three continents; you need examples from a specific country and a specific century: France in the 19th century.

Picky, aren't we?

In Paris in 1881 Dr. Alexander Lacassagne published Les tatouages, etude anthropologique et medico-legale, which included tracings of two thousand tattoos.

In 1862's Les Miserable by Victor Hugo, Jean Valjean proves his identity by describing the tattoos of two men he had been imprisoned with.

So that's two thousand and two examples. I think we can put this one to rest.