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Irma Vep is a french film of genre Drama directed by Olivier Assayas released in USA on 30 april 1997 with Maggie Cheung
Irma Vep (1996)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 30 april 1997
Length 1h39
Directed by Olivier Assayas
OriginFrance
Themes Films about films
Rating69%
Irma Vep is a 1996 film directed by the French director Olivier Assayas, starring Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung (playing herself) in a story about the disasters that result as a middle-aged French film director (played by Jean-Pierre Léaud) attempts to remake Louis Feuillade's classic silent film serial Les vampires. Taking place as it does largely through the eyes of a foreigner (Cheung), it is also a meditation on the state of the French film industry at that time.
The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.
^ "Festival de Cannes: Irma Vep". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved September 20, 2009.
Synopsis
Cheung is employed to play the film-within-the-film's heroine, Irma Vep (an anagram for vampire), a burglar, who spends most of the film dressed in a tight, black, latex rubber catsuit, defending her director's odd choices to hostile crew members and journalists. As the film progresses, the plot mirrors the disorientation felt by the film's director. Cheung the character is in many ways seen by other characters as an exotic sex object dressed in a latex catsuit; both the director and Cheung's costume designer Zoe (Nathalie Richard) have crushes on her.Actors
Maggie Cheung
(Maggie)
Jean-Pierre Léaud
(René Vidal)
Nathalie Richard
(Zoé)
Bulle Ogier
(Mireille)
Antoine Basler
(Journalist)
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