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Jul 25, 2022 · Assayas and Cheung would marry after shooting “Irma Vep”; by the time Assayas directed her again in 2004’s “Clean,” for which Cheung won the best actress prize at Cannes, they had divorced.
- mark.olsen@latimes.com
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Sep 18, 2024 · That was the context in which Assayas, the French filmmaker behind Personal Shopper and Clouds of Sils Maria, met Cheung in 1994, when he juried at the Venice Film Festival and she attended as...
- Raymond Ang
Cheung married French director Olivier Assayas in 1998; they divorced in 2001. [25] She began a relationship with German architect Ole Scheeren in 2007, [ 26 ] but the relationship ended in 2011. [ 27 ]
- The Remake
- The Deconstruction of Movie History
- The Showbiz Comedy
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Irma Vep, the TV miniseries, is a sequel and a reboot of the 1996 movie where Maggie Cheung plays a Hong Kong movie star that's a version of herself who goes to Paris to star in a troubled remake of an old French classic with an unstable director on the verge of a nervous breakdown and taking the production with him. In that version, the director w...
The TV series gave Assayas an opportunity to examine and pay tribute to the original 1915-1916 silent movie Les Vampires which inspired both his 1996 movie and this series. Viewers are treated to clips from the original silent movie and scenes from Rene Vidal's TV miniseries remake that Mira stars in. The show also pays tribute to Musidora, the ori...
Irma Vep starts out as a satire of show business that also perpetuates the myth of crazy directors, insecure actors, and chaotic movie sets. Mira hides her heartbreak and existential malaise behind a wistful smile and escaping into the chaotic, dysfunctional world of the French film industry, the same one in the 1996 movie. Like the movie, it's a c...
For all the fun and comedy, Irma Vep is a deeply personal story for its writer-director. Olivier Assayas is a French film industry lifer. His father was a filmmaker, and he was a film critic for the influential magazine Le Cahiers du Cinema before becoming a filmmaker himself. Irma Vepis his examination of the history of movies and how deeply they'...
Jun 29, 2022 · René and Jade are, of course, stand-ins for writer-director Assayas and his ex-wife, actor Maggie Cheung, the original star of his 1996 film Irma Vep. They married in 1998, then divorced in...
Assayas married Cheung in 1998. They divorced in 2001, but their relationship remained amicable. In 2004, she starred in his film Clean. He met actress-director Mia Hansen-Løve when Hansen-Løve, 17 at the time, starred in Assayas's 1998 feature Late August, Early September. He has said they "didn't get together until [she] was 20". [6]
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Jun 5, 2022 · In real-life, Assayas was married to Maggie Cheung from 1998 to 2001. Their relationship seems to have inspired the artist-muse dynamic between Vidal and actress Jade Lee (Vivian Wu) in the show in a very meta way.
