‘Death Has No Master’ Review: Asia Argento Plays a Woman Contending With Unwanted Housemates in Listless Venezuelan Drama

‘Death Has No Master’ Review: Asia Argento Plays a Woman Contending With Unwanted Housemates in Listless Venezuelan Drama

In 'Death Has No Master,' Asia Argento plays a woman who encounters obstacles when she returns to Venezuela to sell her childhood home.

‘Death Has No Master’ Review: Asia Argento Gets an Anti-Colonialist Comeuppance in a Slow-Burn Siege Flick

Cannes: The controversial arthouse icon plays the heiress to a Venezuelan cacao plantation, who, upon returning home, finds the occupants unwilling to budge in Jorge Thielen Armand's film.

Death Has No Master (La Muerte No Tiene Dueño)

QUICK’N DIRTY: LIVE FROM CANNES Caro (Argento) left her birthplace in Venezuela with her mother as a child and moved to Italy. They never contacted her father again. He died despondent and still longing for his daughter, it is alleged. Caro returns to the “horrible country” where she was born in order to claim her inheritance. The entire country is portrayed as gloomy, if not nightmarish with decrepit hotels, precariously paved roads and a dista…

Jorge Thielen Armand's "Death Has No Master" - Cannes '26 Review

Asia Argento is ideally cast as a prickly protagonist in this effective slow-burn thriller about a woman returning to the plantation her father once ran. The post Cannes 2026 Review: Jorge Thielen Armand’s “Death Has No Master” Eerily Brings the Stain of a Colonial Past Into the Present appeared first on The Moveable Fest.