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- 1997
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 39 m
- 1997
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 39 m
Summary A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.
Directed By: Olivier Assayas
Written By: Olivier Assayas
- 1997
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 39 m
- 1997
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 39 m
Irma Vep
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5.3
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Summary A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.
Directed By: Olivier Assayas
Written By: Olivier Assayas
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
80
91% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
9% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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This unexpected masterpiece was assembled so quickly that it has an improvisational feel and a surrealist capacity to access its own unconscious—traits it shares with Feuillade's work.
Movies about moviemaking usually fall into one of two categories: ones that satirize or debunk the film industry or ones that celebrate it. Irma Vep, a sometimes dazzling French film by writer-director Olivier Assayas, does both. [13 June 1997, p.I]
Irma Vep is over before you know it, which is both a tribute to the talents of Assayas - he draws you in completely, his film never lags - and a bummer. You want to follow these people around a little longer, see what happens to their movie (although we do get to see something that happens, and it's weird and dazzling) and what becomes of them all. This a film about thievery - the character of Irma Vep is a jewel thief, the director is stealing from the past - and in its own very cool, very brash way, Irma Vep steals its audience's heart. [13 June 1997, p.10]
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.
Irma Vep blurs the line between reality and fantasy, toys with notions of identity and offers a playfully jaundiced look at the petty jealousies and acts of sabotage that infect film crews in the heat of production.
A slender but appealing divertissement about a has-been auteur attempting to remake the French silent classic "Les Vampires," the film's wry digs at the institution of Gallic art movies and at the anarchic confusion of the filmmaking process should amuse hip fest audiences.
But its behind-the-scenes satire of the peccadilloes of "serious" French filmmaking eventually turns downright pedantic, while the backstage intrigue (much of it hinging on a female staffer's romantic designs on Maggie) is surprisingly tame. [25 July 1997, p.L31]
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Awards
Rotterdam International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Online Film Critics Society Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
