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Irma Vep

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  • 1hr 39m
  • 80

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Olivier Assayas

Producer:

Georges Benayoun

Runtime:

1hr 39m

Synopsis

Hong Kong starlet Maggie Cheung arrives in France to portray Irma Vep in a remake of Les Vampires (1915), but the production is plagued by behind-the-scenes intrigues.

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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Metacritic

80
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Based on 23 Critics
4.8

USER SCORE (5)

Mixed or average reviews based on 5 Reviews
88

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]

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Metacritic review by Jay Carr
Jay Carr
Boston Globe
75

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]

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Metacritic review by John Hartl
John Hartl
The Seattle Times
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