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- Irma Vep is clearly the most un-Assayas-like film that director Olivier Assayas has ever made. Known for slow, pensive, meticulously crafted films, he lets loose with Irma Vep, a wild, erratic and wildly entertaining slagging of French film culture. Like Truffaut's Day for Night, it is essentially a film within a film.
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Irma Vep is a 1996 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Olivier Assayas. Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung plays a fictionalised version of herself, as disasters result when an unstable French film director (played by Jean-Pierre Léaud) attempts to remake Louis Feuillade 's classic silent film serial Les Vampires (1915–16).
Aug 2, 2022 · Irma Vep, an eight-part A24/HBO miniseries written and directed by Olivier Assayas, is an adaptation of Assayas’s 1996 film of the same name. In the 1996 Irma Vep, a French filmmaker, René, adapts a Maggie Cheung-starring remake of the 1915 serial Les Vampires called Irma Vep; in the 2022 remake, René (Vincent Macaigne, replacing Jean ...
Jul 25, 2022 · “Irma Vep” is a serialized remake of Assayas’ 1996 feature of the same title, which also follows an actor — in this case, the Hong Kong star Maggie Cheung, playing a version of herself — who has...
Jun 3, 2022 · In 1996, writer-director Olivier Assayas released Irma Vep, a film about attempting to remake Louis Feuillade’s 1915 silent film serial classic Les Vampires.
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Irma Vep: Directed by Olivier Assayas. With Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler. A Hong Kong actress, Maggie Cheung playing a fictional version of herself, is cast in France to star in a remake of Les Vampires (1915), but petty intrigues and clashing egos plague the production.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Olivier Assayas
- 1997-04-30
Jun 6, 2022 · Sharply written and impeccably directed in the literate, whirling style that is Assayas’s calling card, Irma Vep contains multitudes. It’s a behind-the-scenes satire skewering the egos and ...
Jun 29, 2022 · In the fourth episode of Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas’s expansive HBO remake of his 1996 film of the same name, René (Vincent Macaigne) has an impossible conversation.
