Irma Vep

Locations
Call Number: DVD FLC-FRE Irma
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch

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Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	DVD FLC-FRE Irma	1-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult A/V 1-week checkout	DVD FLC-FRE Irma	1-week checkout	On Shelf

Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
Includes theatrical trailer and filmographies of cast and crew.
Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard.
Aging director Henri Vidal has decided to film a remake of the legendary silent serial, Les vampires, in hopes of making a comeback. Vidal chooses Cheung to play Irma Vep, the leader of a band of jewel thieves. Arriving in Paris unable to speak a word of French, Cheung finds herself stuck in the middle of a stressful situation when the production begins to fall apart and Vidal suffers a nervous breakdown.
DVD ; widescreen.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Instant Classic submitted by jibkidder on July 24, 2022, 11:55am Now expanded into a modern HBO Serial (which cubes the meta-textuality at least), this is former Cahiers Du Cinema critic turned French Auteur Assayas's quintessential 90s film - and ode to and critique of cinema-making at a distinct point in time. Maggie Cheung would go on to briefly be Assayas's wife, a fact that is humorously explored in the serial. It is interesting to me that in the past month me and my wife have seen 3 fictional characters based on Assayas - Tim Roth's character in Bergman Isle, the director in this film, followed by Rene, the director from the serial.