HBO's 'Irma Vep' TV show will restore your faith in movies
With Alicia Vikander as a Hollywood star acting in a French crime serial, Olivier Assayas' series refracts his 1996 masterpiece through a dizzyingly playful prism.
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With Alicia Vikander as a Hollywood star acting in a French crime serial, Olivier Assayas' series refracts his 1996 masterpiece through a dizzyingly playful prism.
If you’ve been paying attention to the press coverage of the trendy new HBO series Irma Vep, you’ve undoubtedly encountered references to its purported “meta” qualities.
The new HBO limited series is about the making of a limited series reboot of the 1915-1916 French silent crime serial 'Les Vampires.'
This article contains minor spoilers. In 1996, Hong Kong screen icon Maggie Cheung Man-yuk travelled to Paris to star in French director Olivier Assayas ’ Irma Vep – an avant-garde, behind-the-scenes satire about a film adaptation of Louis Feuillade’s 1916 silent crime serial Les Vampires. Cheung and Assayas married in 1998, only to divorce three years later. At last month’s...
When a Hollywood actress arrives in Paris to remake a French classic, life and art begin to blur with messy, inspired effect.