Cult Fiction

Irma Vep

Credits

Country :

France

Year :

1996

Director :

Olivier Assayas

Version :

vostFR

Duration :

97 minutes

Format :

digital

Actors :

Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard

Awards :

Official selection, Un certain regard – Cannes 1996

synopsis

A Hong Kong action star travels to Paris to play the legendary criminal Irma Vep in a remake of Louis Feuillade’s 1915 silent classic Les Vampires. Instead of the professional production she expected, she finds herself caught in complete chaos, where clashing egos threaten to derail the entire film…

Le sixième film d'Assayas, mené tambour battant, un script rédigé en dix jours, un mois de tournage, un montage éclair, et à l'écran une énergie qui convoque aussi bien le cinéma de Hong Kong que les fantômes de Feuillade, Truffaut ou Rivette.

Cinémathèque française

A true torchbearer of the French New Wave – playful, restless, full of invention, and born of an overwhelming discontent for the status quo.

The A.V. Club

Cheung, slinking around the corridors of her hotel in her sheath of shiny black latex to the dissonant chords of Sonic Youth, is an instant icon of everything.

TV Guide Magazine