Irma Vep
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Synopsis
A has-been French filmmaker wants a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine in a rendering of Les Vampires.
Cast
- Maggie Cheung
- Jean-Pierre Léaud
- Nathalie Richard
- Antoine Basler
- Nathalie Boutefeu
- Alex Descas
- Dominique Faysse
- Arsinée Khanjian
- Bernard Nissile
- Olivier Torres
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- Oct 19, 2021
that ending was one of the coolest things i’ve seen in a movie. filmmaking seems fun!
KarstenMay 8, 2020A satire on the filmmaking process and how misguided the film industry is, touching upon tentpole films and pointless remakes, female sexualization/male gaze, and the idea that many filmmakers make films out of their own selfish desires instead of making them for people to…
SimonMar 8, 2017"I'd rather have people feel a film before understanding it." - Robert Bresson
Brendan Michaels - Nov 21, 2017
omg I never realized that "IRMA VEP" was an anagram for "VAMPIRE" ??????? HOW do I have a master's degree!??!?!?!
Alex KittleJul 12, 201792/100 Celebrating 20 years of being powerless to articulate my intense love for this glorious whatsit. As I wrote back in '97, it "seems in some bizarre way to entirely transcend logic and reason, so that whatever limited critical faculties I possess are completely…
Mike D'AngeloMar 10, 2017olivier assayas sure does love his lesbians.. and not making sense...
#1 gizmo fan - Feb 4, 2023
I think this movie is awesome despite the fact that characters in it diss Batman Returns AND Police Story. Monstrous behavior.
Patrick WillemsNov 12, 2013I get why so many people are obsessed with Maggie Cheung now. This is a dream-like film wherein Cheung plays herself in a collapsing film production, caught as an outsider in a strange, detached world. The film is at once a critique of cinema and filmmaking and a strange…
Sally Jane BlackSep 5, 2020what is love if it’s not watching maggie cheung rolling around to sonic youth
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- CvptvinHowdy likedIrma Vep
I bet this director's main priority was to just film Maggie Cheung in a latex suit, and can you blame him? That whole scene when Sonic Youth played in the background was so cool, and the visuals in the end.
bianca likedIrma Vepliked it more compared to the show tbh
Prunille Jacquemont is "meh" onIrma VepNot my style but good
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Metacritic
Olivier Assayas's Irma Vep is a spicy, propulsive, invigorating paradox - a French film of great gusto about the exhaustion of French film culture. Written in 10 days and shot in four weeks with a very busy Super 16mm camera, it looks and plays as breathlessly as its on-the-fly circumstances. [27 July 1997, p.C8]
Jay Carr
Boston Globe
The 42-year-old Assayas demonstrates an assured light touch here, drawing expert comic performances from Cheung, Richard and Ogier while using a 16mm hand-held camera to lend the film a live, experimental quality. It dovetails neatly with a surreal and quite hilarious ending that carries the technique - and Vidal's cinematic pretensions - to their logical conclusion. [26 Sept 1997]
John Hartl
The Seattle Times
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