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Irma Vep
Directed by
Olivier Assayas
Not Rated
1997
1h 39m
Drama
,
Comedy
7.0
94%
71%
6.7
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A has-been French filmmaker wants a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine in a rendering of Les Vampires.
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Cast of Irma Vep
Maggie Cheung
Maggie
Jean-Pierre Léaud
René Vidal
Nathalie Richard
Zoé
Antoine Basler
Journalist
Nathalie Boutefeu
Laure
Alex Descas
Desormeaux
Dominique Faysse
Maïté
Arsinée Khanjian
L'américaine
Bernard Nissile
Markus
Olivier Torres
Ferdinand / Moreno
Bulle Ogier
Mireille
Lou Castel
José Mirano
Jacques Fieschi
Roland
Estelle Larrivaz
La standardiste
Balthazar Clémenti
Robert - Assistant
Lara Cowez
Script Supervisor
Dominique Cuny
Grip
Jessica Doyle
Jessica - Roland's Friend
Sandra Faure
Vendeuse, sex-shop
Catherine Ferny
Policewoman
Irma Vep Ratings & Reviews
Bitch Media
Alyx Vesey
Irma Vep is a magnificently varied film, integrating film footage, press interviews, gossip, and film's hurry-up-and-wait production schedule. Cheung in particular does a masterful job playing herself, at once transparent and opaque.
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Melissa Anderson
An exhilarating film that happens to be about moviemaking itself, Olivier Assayas's sinuous, kinetic, waggish Irma Vep is an oblique, supremely enjoyable course in movie history.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
A funny and fascinatingly open-ended look at the state of the art, Irma Vep is well worth a look.
Jaredmobarak.com
Jared Mobarak
If you're going to poke fun at the film industry, you might as well go for broke.
CNN.com
Paul Tatara
I really enjoyed "Irma Vep." I will, however, be the first to admit that it's not for everybody.
Spin
Michael Atkinson
Though Irma Vep may be best appreciated by movieheads, it's hardly just an homage. By its shrieking avant-garde climax, it's more like a statement on how history, even filmed history, can fragment and dissolve into oblivion.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Light, playful, and self-reflexive, Assayas' film is a mi or work but it's enjoyable and boasts a graceful performance from Maggie Cheung.
Slant Magazine
Fernando F. Croce
The post-modern compulsions on display here may bring movies together, but they also keep people apart.
Slate
David Edelstein
Irma Vep's director, Olivier Assayas, evinces a love of the process that's nearly as palpable as Truffaut's.
Variety
David Rooney
Slender but appealing.
TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
Amusing satire on French cinema and the insanity that is filmmaking.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Minor but witty.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
As effortless as a shrug and boasts a film buff's dream cast.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
A film of such spontaneity, freshness and breezy chaos that you feel as if it were assembled from happy accidents and inspired, seat-of- the-pants improvisation.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Scripted in ten days and shot in less than a month, the film unravels like a delirious piece of automatic writing, though in this case the sinister implications apply to a very different world -- our own.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Ends up a knowing, and fairly lucid, portrait of the filmmaking experience, warts and all.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
It's a languorous love ballad, and a daring one, about the way moving pictures move, the way they hold light, the way they steal from us when we're not looking.
Film.com
John Hartl
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.
Houston Chronicle
Jeff Millar
Movies about making movies are never quite as interesting as the people who make them think they're going to be.
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