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Asia Argento Stars in Cannes Thriller on Venezuelan Plantation

5/22/2026

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Asia Argento returns to Cannes to star in the Directors’ Fortnight thriller Death Has No Master.
She plays an immigrant heiress who seeks to claim a colonial cacao plantation inheritance in Venezuela.
Director Jorge Thielen Armand said the film’s meaning shifted after the U.S. invasion of Venezuela earlier this year.
Argento told Deadline she felt a constant threat on set and described her character as fragile and isolated.

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Asia Argento returns to Cannes to star in the Directors’ Fortnight thriller Death Has No Master.
She plays an immigrant heiress who seeks to claim a colonial cacao plantation inheritance in Venezuela.
Director Jorge Thielen Armand said the film’s meaning shifted after the U.S. invasion of Venezuela earlier this year.
Argento told Deadline she felt a constant threat on set and described her character as fragile and isolated.