Irma Vep

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Alec B @Alec97 Feb 21, 2024 An interesting commentary on French film culture as it existed in the 90s and using Cheung, an obvious outsider, as the movie's central figure allows that commentary to be accessible to everybody. See more S R @ScottR Oct 19, 2023 Saw it for the cast and the premise. It was tedious and wasn't what I expected. Saw on TCM. See more Dave S @RT68722908 Apr 17, 2023 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. Maggie Cheung, playing herself, travels to Paris to join the production of the remake of prolific French filmmaker Louis Feuillade's silent film Les Vampires. From the get go, things begin to spiral out of control as egos clash and incompetence rules the day. Jerky handheld cameras give a sense of mayhem throughout. The performances are great, especially by Jean-Pierre Leaud as the demanding and unstable director. While the ending may leave some viewers cold and others may object to its helter skelter style, Irma Vep is worth watching for anyone interested in the process of movie making. See more TheFilmReviewer 1 @TheRealAckervold Mar 2, 2023 Breathtakingly awesome (there is no other word for it), Olivier Assayas imbues his love for cinema into a compelling 99 minute film with fantastic stars, pace, and dialogue. See more Ravenswood R @RT16435246 Feb 8, 2023 Robert Altman Nashville style "slice of life" with the camera following people having "real" conversations. No real plot or story emerges from all these interactions. I suppose it is entertaining at times, but I could never catch gears with it and really know what was going on. It is satirizing something which I definitely don't know much about, so if you aren't a French film buff or know much about French culture surrounding films this is not going to be your bag. See more Aug 8, 2022 Maggie Chung plunges headlong into the fractious world of French cinema, all at once reverential, disillusioned, pretentious, ambition and pathetic. It's the mid-90's and the ideas have run out, the money's tight and it's time for a remake. Irma Vep, silent and surreal, almost unfilmable. The cast bounce off each other as the frustration of another futile homage hits the skids while Chung becomes the character and sails above the tension. Then the rushes, it's great. See more Read all reviews

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