Asia Argento

This documentary explores Frida's art as well as her photos, clothes and personal objects not always accessible to the public. But who was Frida in real life? And how much energy and vitality are released from her paintings even when they portray pain and suffering? The film rolls out in a journey in search of Frida, into the heart of Mexico, amid cactuses, monkeys, deer and parrots, alternating exclusive interviews, with period documents, evocative...

From the brightness of the early 90s to the modern darkness, without falling into rhetoric, the leitmotif of the film is irony, sometimes bitter, in the story of the many well-known characters who describe unrepeatable meeting places, situations and encounters. There are many witnesses of the Capitoline scene of the 90s: Marco Giallini, Asia Argento, Ivano De Matteo, Coccoluto. All together they form a mosaic that gives the current image of Rome:...