{"id":15078,"date":"2023-11-06T16:19:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=15078"},"modified":"2025-06-11T03:11:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:11:00","slug":"irma-vep-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/irma-vep-2\/","title":{"rendered":"IRMA VEP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/span>| 2022 \u2013\u00a0 8 X 52′\u00a0 – SERIES – COMEDY, DRAMA – A US\/France Co-Production
\n<\/span><\/span>Written by: Olivier Assayas,\u00a0based on his own film IRMA VEP (1996).
\nDirected by:\u00a0Olivier Assayas.
\nStarring:\u00a0Alicia Vikander, Vincent Macaigne, Nora Hamzawi, Antoine Reinartz, Devon Ross, Jeanne Balibar, Vincent Lacoste, Alex Descas, Hippolyte Girardot, Lars Eidinger.
\nWorld Premiere Cannes International Film Festival 2022, Official Competition,
\nUS Theatrical Premiere TAFFF 2022.<\/strong>
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA HBO Max release. |<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivier Assayas\u2018s eight-episode HBO mini-series,\u00a0Irma Vep, is a playful remake of his own 1996 feature film, also called\u00a0Irma Vep\u2026 which was about a film director intent on making a modern-day remake of Louis Feuillade\u2019s 1915 eight-episode silent serial,\u00a0Les Vampires. But the self-referential dimension doesn\u2019t end there.\u00a0 Because the director character in this series often refers to\u00a0his own\u00a0earlier remake of the film, with the Asian leading lady he subsequently married \u2014 referring, of course, to Maggie Cheung, the 1996 \u201cIrma Vep\u201d and Assayas\u2019s 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\u2019s full of discussions about art vs. \u201ccontent\u201d, the cinema vs. TV, and the future of moving pictures, in general.\u00a0 It\u2019s 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><\/em><\/p>\n

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