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Irma Vep

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Les Vampires

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Irma Vep (TV Miniseries)

Original title

Irma Vep

Year

1996

Running time

97 min.

Country

France

Director

Olivier Assayas

Screenwriter

Olivier Assayas

Cast

Music

Philippe Richard, Yann Richard

Cinematography

Eric Gautier

Producer

Dacia Films & Cinea, Canal+

Genre

Drama | Film In Film. Ensemble Film. Satire

Synopsis

Maggie Cheung, acting out her own role as one of the greatest stars of Asian cinema, comes to Paris to portray Irma Vep (the character created by Musidora) in a remake of the famous series "Vampires" directed by Louis Feuillade between 1915 and 1916. She does not speak a word of French, and therefore everyone is forced to speak to her in broken English--especially her somewhat incomprehensible, has-been director, Rene Vidal, who sees Maggie as the unique incarnation of a modern Irma Vep.

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Awards: 1997: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film

1997: Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Nom. for Best Foreign Language Film

1997: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Supporting Actress.

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Critics' reviews

"A funny and fascinatingly open-ended look at the state of the art, Irma Vep is well worth a look."

Keith Phipps: AV Club
"This unexpected masterpiece was assembled so quickly that it has an improvisational feel and a surrealist capacity to access its own unconscious—traits it shares with Feuillade's work."

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Chicago Reader
"'Irma Vep' is a picture of missed connections and tenuous relationships, most touchingly in the scenes between Cheung and Zoe (Nathalie Richard), her smitten costume designer."

Fernando F. Croce: Slant
"'Irma Vep' features some wonderful performances (notably those of Cheung, Leaud, and Richard), that, in concert with its sure direction and smart script, make for a wholly satisfying motion picture."

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
"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."

Jay Carr: Boston Globe
"'Irma Vep' is a glorious mishmash, like the medium it celebrates."

Dave Kehr: New York Daily News
"If the rare vitality and wit of Irma Vep weren't enough to shake jaded viewers in their seats, its climactic blast of optically enhanced images will."

Chicago Sun-Times
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