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10/16/03
Irma Vep (1996)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:32
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Hong Kong diva Cheung stars as herself, having been cast on a director's whim as the slinky, cat-burgling heroine of a remake of the vintage French serial "Les Vampires." Once in Paris, Cheung... [More]
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler
Director: Olivier Assayas
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Reviews for Irma Vep
No review available.
11/05/02
Ends up a knowing, and fairly lucid, portrait of the filmmaking experience, warts and all.
01/01/00
No review available.
06/03/05
An arguably brilliant film with the noncontradictory potential to bore half its intended audience and enchant the other half.
01/01/00
A wonderful tribute to filmmaking that could only be made in France, it has delightful performances and a low-budget style -- like the film it parodies -- which work beautifully.
03/03/08
Scripted in ten days and shot in less than a month, the film unravels like a delirious piece of automatic writing, though in this case the sinister implications apply to a very different world -- our own.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
02/21/08
We just love to make movies about movies to deconstruct them, to see what's behind them.
03/29/04
French cineastes will appreciate the writing and direction of Oliver Assayas.
01/01/00
No review available.
06/11/05
Ultimately, Irma Vep doesn't quite have the courage of its convictions, but still provides plenty of scathing satire on the state of French cinema.
01/01/00
No review available.
01/13/05
A sometimes scathing, sometimes goodnatured satire of the French film industry.
03/17/02
Like many French products, it's quirky but not all it's cracked up to be.
05/13/03
Movies about making movies are never quite as interesting as the people who make them think they're going to be.
01/01/00
Top CriticOne of the few movies about making movies that captures the kinetic madness of the process. Maggie Cheung, playing herself, floats like a bemused Buddha through the maelstrom, offering a welcome sense of grace and normalcy.
04/30/03
As effortless as a shrug and boasts a film buff's dream cast.
02/14/01
Top Critic[It] seems to function as a cinematic state of affairs, examining the functions and motivations behind the movies we see.
03/05/02
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