Irma Vep (1996)

Directed by

Olivier Assayas

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 247 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Hong Kong movie star arrives in Paris to star in a remake of a silent French serial. The director is unstable and the production is a disaster.

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What happens

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); Irma Vep is an anagram for the word "vampire". Taking place largely through the eyes of a foreigner (Cheung), it is also a meditation on the state of the French film industry. Irma Vep was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. It was released in France on 13 November 1996. In 2022, the film was reimagined as a miniseries for HBO, created by Assayas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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