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
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 3.5/4 |
The post-modern compulsions on display here may bring movies together, but they also keep people apart. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Irma Vep's director, Olivier Assayas, evinces a love of the process that's nearly as palpable as Truffaut's. Full Review |
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Slender but appealing. Full Review |
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A delightfully nonchalant movie, complete with some nice satirical barbs aimed at contemporary French film culture, and fine performances throughout. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Amusing satire on French cinema and the insanity that is filmmaking. Full Review |
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4/4 |
We just love to make movies about movies to deconstruct them, to see what's behind them. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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 cool. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Minor but witty. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Like many French products, it's quirky but not all it's cracked up to be.
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One 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.
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Love of film is the magical point of the film. Full Review |
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A sometimes scathing, sometimes goodnatured satire of the French film industry. Full Review |
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