Irma Vep
Synopsis
Maggie Cheung is a martial arts movie star from Hong Kong. She has just arrived in Paris to play the lead role in a TV-remake of the 1915 silent movie serial "Vampires" by Louis Feuillade, to be directed by René Vidal. Maggie is to reinterpret the part originally played by Musidora as a modern Irma Vep more in the style of Catwoman in Batman 2. Alone in Paris without a word of French, struggling to communicate in awkward English with people who speak it no better than she, Maggie muddles through the mists of jetlag and the ups and downs of daily life on the shoot, trying to figure out what people really want from her.
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Actors (29)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Dacia Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Haut et Court
- French distribution : Haut et Court
Full credits (17)
- Executive Producer : Georges Benayoun
- Screenwriter : Olivier Assayas
- Director of Photography : Éric Gautier
- Music Composer : Philippe Richard
- Editor : Luc Barnier
- Sound Recordist : Philippe Richard
- Costume designers : Françoise Clavel, Jessica Doyle
- Line Producer : Françoise Guglielmi
- Assistant Operator : Stéphane Fontaine
- Production manager : Sylvie Barthet
- Sound editor : Marie-Christine Ratel
- Assistant editor : Tina Baz
- Continuity supervisor : Edmée Doroszlai
- Production Designers : François-Renaud Labarthe, Yann Richard
- Casting : Pierre Amzallag
- Sound Mixer : William Flageollet
- Still Photographer : Isabelle Weingarten
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Cinema, Femininity, Mystery
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1996
- French release : 13/11/1996
- Runtime : 1 h 38 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 89.375
- Visa issue date : 13/11/1996
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
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"The first thing one notices about "Irma Vep" is that Olivier Assayas' register hasn't simply widened, it's moved into a league of its own. By one knows not what stroke of magic, here's a director who has returned with something entirely new: an oblique viewpoint, a nervous acidity, balanced, slender humour. (...) What the film handles with such joyful elegance is the evocation of a domain cinema fights most shy of: the world of cinema itself. (...)"
(Olivier Séguret - Libération)
