{"id":11522,"date":"2022-08-12T16:20:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T16:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=11522"},"modified":"2025-06-14T16:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T16:24:31","slug":"irma-vep","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/irma-vep\/","title":{"rendered":"IRMA VEP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sunday, October 16<\/b> – Truffaut Theatre
\nPart I<\/strong> – 1:15 pm
\n(Screening ends at 4:50 pm)<\/em>
\nPart II<\/strong> – 5:40 pm
\n(Screening ends at 9:10 pm)<\/em><\/p>\n

TV SERIES \/ COMEDY, DRAMA<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663819961370{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Presented in Association with:
\n<\/span>HBO Max & OCS
\nA24
\nMonsieur MArcel<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule\/63269475e7093300298b262f” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663860150066{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Theatrical World Premiere (Complete Version) <\/b><\/span>|\u00a0Mini Series | USA, France\u00a0|\u00a02022\u00a0|\u00a0Drama, Comedy\u00a0|\u00a08 x 52\u00a0min \u2013 416\u2019 \u2013 presented in two parts | In English and in French with English subtitles\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Directed by<\/b>:<\/span> Olivier Assayas
\n<\/span>Written by<\/b>: Olivier Assayas<\/span>, <\/b>based on his own film IRMA VEP (1996)
\n<\/span>Produced by<\/b>: HBO, <\/span>Ravi Nandan & Hallie Sekoff (A24), Sylvie Barthet & Daniel Delume (Les Films Mysterieux) Olivier Assayas (Vortex Sutra), Stuart Manashil Ashley Levinson, Kevin Turen, Sam Levinson, Finn Barry, Alicia Vikander
\n<\/span>Cinematography<\/b>: <\/span>Denis Lenoir, Yorick Le Saux
\n<\/span>Film Editing<\/b>: Simon Jacquet, Marion Monnier, Fran\u00e7ois G<\/span>\u00e9<\/span>digier
\n<\/span>Original Score<\/b>: Thurston Moore<\/span>
\n<\/span>Cast<\/b>: <\/span>Alicia Vikander (Mira Harberg), Vincent Macaigne (Ren\u00e9 Vidal), Nora Hamzawi (Carla), Antoine Reinartz (J\u00e9r\u00e9mie), Devon Ross (Regina), Jeanne Balibar (Zo\u00e9), Vincent Lacoste (Edmond Lagrange), Alex Descas (Gr\u00e9gory Desormeaux), Hippolyte Girardot (Robert d\u2019Anjou), Lars Eidinger (Gottfried)<\/span>
\n<\/span>Original Broadcast<\/b>: HBO Max & OCS, May 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivier Assayas<\/b>‘s eight-episode HBO mini-series, <\/span>Irma Vep<\/i><\/b>, is a playful remake of his own 1996 feature film, also called <\/span>Irma Vep<\/span><\/i>… which was about a film director intent on making a modern-day remake of Louis Feuillade’s 1915 eight-episode silent serial, <\/span>Les Vampires<\/span><\/i>. But the self-referential dimension doesn’t end there.\u00a0 Because the director character in this series often refers to <\/span>his own<\/span><\/i> earlier remake of the film, with the Asian leading lady he subsequently married \u2014 referring, of course, to Maggie Cheung, the 1996 “Irma Vep” and Assayas’s former wife. Making the film not only uber-meta, but also somewhat autobiographical. The series is full of clips from both the Feuillade original and the 1996 film.\u00a0 It’s full of discussions about art vs. “content”, the cinema vs. TV, and the future of moving pictures, in general.\u00a0 It’s also a thoroughly entertaining, intelligent, witty, enormously charming behind-the-scenes film industry romp, laden with the prerequisite production catastrophes, eccentric talent, big egos and creative challenges. Alicia Vikander and Vincent Macaigne \u2014 both extraordinary here and clearly having a ball \u2014 lead an impeccable all-star cast in this clever, joyous homage to making movies the kooky, old-fashioned, indie way \u2014 with passion, ingenuity and a heaping measure of heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

The son of screenwriter Jacques R\u00e9my, <\/span>Olivier Assayas<\/b> directed his first short in 1979, and was a film critic for <\/span>Cahiers du Cin\u00e9ma<\/span><\/i> from 1980 to 1985. He co-wrote the screenplays for <\/span>Rendez-Vous<\/span><\/i> (1984) and <\/span>Scene of the Crime<\/span><\/i> (1985) with director Andr\u00e9 T\u00e9chin\u00e9. He made his feature directorial debut with <\/span>Disorder<\/span><\/i>, which premiered in Venice in 1986.\u00a0 He has written and directed 31 features, shorts, series and documentaries since then. His breakout feature, <\/span>Cold Water<\/span><\/i> (1994), premiered in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes and <\/span>Irma Vep<\/span><\/i> (the feature, 1996) won the Dutch Film Critics’ Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival. Assayas is a gifted director of actors and many of his performers have been rewarded with prizes.\u00a0 Jeanne Balibar won the Best Actress Award in San Sebastian for <\/span>Late August, Early September (1999).
\n<\/span><\/i>Maggie Cheung won the Best Actress Award in Cannes for Clean (2004). \u00c9dgar Ram\u00edrez won a C\u00e9sar Award as Most Promising Actor for the miniseries Carlos (2010). And Kristen Stewart nabbed a C\u00e9sar Award as Best Supporting Actress for Clouds of Sils Maria (2014), which also garnered the Prix Louis Delluc as Best Film. Summer Hours (2008) was named Best Film of the year by the Indiewire Critics’ Poll, and Best Foreign Film by the Los Angeles Film Critics’ Association, the New York Film Critics’ Circle and the National Society of Film Critics in the U.S. Personal Shopper (2016) won a Best Director Award in Cannes. The first three episodes of\u00a0Irma Vep\u00a0were screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival,\u00a0and the entire series will make its theatrical debut at The American French Film Festival.<\/span>
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[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1661902203963{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] IRMA VEP [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663860225415{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Sunday, October 16 – Truffaut Theatre Part I – 1:15 pm (Screening ends at 4:50 pm) Part II – 5:40 pm (Screening ends at 9:10 pm) TV SERIES \/ COMEDY, DRAMA [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663819961370{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Presented in Association with: HBO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11522","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11522"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12929,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11522\/revisions\/12929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}