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Irma Vep
Satiric tweaking of French filmmaking begins with has-been director Rene Vidal (Leaud) hiring Hong Kong star Maggie Cheung to take the lead role of Irma Vep in a remake of the 1915 silent French classic "Les Vampires." But from the moment the actress arrives in Paris, it's one disaster after another. Cheung has trouble with the language barrier, Vidal is having a breakdown, lesbian costumer Zoe (Richard) is instantly smitten by Cheung and has her interest humiliatingly conveyed to everyone on the production. Then there's Jose Murano (Castel), a snobbish auteur who replaces Vidal and believes the Chinese actress can't play a French thief, not knowing that Cheung has become obsessed with her role and is practicing stealing from other hotel guests. English and French with subtitles.
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Run Time:
96 minutes
Rating:
Unrated - Not submitted for MPAA review
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Color:
Color
Silent:
No
Format:
VHS, DVD, Wide
Language:
French
Distributor:
Facets Multimedia, Inc., Wellspring Media
Hibbert, Edward 1955–
Newspaper article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television; 1/1/2005; 1057+ words...Outward Bound, Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, CT, 2002. Also appeared in Pirates on Parade; Mystery of Irma Vep, London; Lend Me a Tenor, London; Hamlet, London; Twelfth Night, London; The Way of the World, London; Oh...
From Jean-Paul Belmondo to Stan Brakhage: romanticism and intertextuality in Irma Vep and Les Miserables.
Newspaper article from: Film Criticism; 9/22/2002; Metz, Walter ; 6659+ wordsAbout halfway through Irma Vep (1996), Olivier Assayas' self...antiestablishment rebellion in The 400 Blows, in Irma Vep, Leaud-as-Vidal, an allegorical...meditation on the state of French cinema, Irma Vep poses a vexing question: How could...
Editor's introduction.
Newspaper article from: Film Criticism; 9/22/2002; Metz, Walter ; 1344+ words...my own essay argues that the source of Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep (1996) lies beyond its references to the films of Louis...theoretical possibilities than that offered in my study of Irma Vep and Lelouch's Les Miserables. At stake here is a highlighting...
21st-century blues. (Festivals: Cannes).
Newspaper article from: Film Comment; 7/1/2002; Smith, Gavin ; 1978+ words...appears to be unfolding in the here-and-now, at about the halfway mark (somewhere around the time Diane turns into Irma Vep and gets into a life-or-death catfight with Gina Gershon's corporate uberbitch) there's the sense that the film...
Les Vampires
Newspaper article from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers; 1/1/2001; Armes, Roy ; 1355+ words...Nox/Count of Noirmoutier/Big Jules/Monsieur Treps/Baron de Mortesaigues/Colonel Count de Derlor ); Musidora(Irma Vep/Anne Marie Le Goff/Juliette Bertaux/Mlle. de Mortesaigues/The Viscount Guy de Kerlor/Marie Boissier/Aurelia...
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