"Tomb Raider" actress Alicia Vikander stars in the new limited drama action miniseries "Irma Vep", written and directed by Olivier Assayas, remaking his 1996 feature, streaming June 6, 2022 on HBO Max:
"...'Irma Vep' follows a movie star named 'Mira' as she struggles with the distinctions between herself and the characters she plays. Mira is disillusioned by her career and a recent breakup, so she moves to France to star as 'Irma Vep' in a remake of the French silent film classic, 'Les Vampires'..."
Cast also includes Vincent Macaigne as 'René Vidal', Jeanne Balibar as 'Zoe', Devon Ross as 'Regina', Lars Eidinger as 'Gottfried', Vincent Lacoste as 'Edmond Lagrange', Nora Hamzawi as 'Carla', Adria Arjona as 'Laurie', Carrie Brownstein as 'Zelda', Tom Sturridge as 'Eamonn', Byron Bowers as 'Herman', Fala Chen as 'Cynthia Keng', Hippolyte Girardot as 'Robert Danjou', Alex Descas as 'Gregory Desormeaux' and Antoine Reinartz as 'Jeremie'.
"...'Irma Vep' follows a movie star named 'Mira' as she struggles with the distinctions between herself and the characters she plays. Mira is disillusioned by her career and a recent breakup, so she moves to France to star as 'Irma Vep' in a remake of the French silent film classic, 'Les Vampires'..."
Cast also includes Vincent Macaigne as 'René Vidal', Jeanne Balibar as 'Zoe', Devon Ross as 'Regina', Lars Eidinger as 'Gottfried', Vincent Lacoste as 'Edmond Lagrange', Nora Hamzawi as 'Carla', Adria Arjona as 'Laurie', Carrie Brownstein as 'Zelda', Tom Sturridge as 'Eamonn', Byron Bowers as 'Herman', Fala Chen as 'Cynthia Keng', Hippolyte Girardot as 'Robert Danjou', Alex Descas as 'Gregory Desormeaux' and Antoine Reinartz as 'Jeremie'.
- 5/17/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
French director Olivier Assayas walked a tightrope with his 1996 unclassifiable, meta-moviemaking drama “Irma Vep.” It starred Hong Kong icon Maggie Cheung as herself, starring in a French film whose director was played by cinema legend Jean-Pierre Leaud, as they attempted to remake Louis Feuillade’s classic silent film serial “Les Vampires.” A treatise on Hollywood? A lampoon of the French film industry? A meta exercise in the negotiations between a major actress and a serious director? All of the above.
Now, Olivier Assayas is remaking his own movie for television with “Irma Vep,” coming to HBO and HBO Max on June 6 and now with Alicia Vikander in the role originated by Cheung. The show is first set to stop off at the Cannes Film Festival — Assayas’ stomping grounds with films like “Personal Shopper” and “Summer Hours” in competition and also the original “Irma Vep” in Un Certain Regard — before hitting the small screen.
Now, Olivier Assayas is remaking his own movie for television with “Irma Vep,” coming to HBO and HBO Max on June 6 and now with Alicia Vikander in the role originated by Cheung. The show is first set to stop off at the Cannes Film Festival — Assayas’ stomping grounds with films like “Personal Shopper” and “Summer Hours” in competition and also the original “Irma Vep” in Un Certain Regard — before hitting the small screen.
- 5/17/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
HBO released the trailer for its upcoming limited series “Irma Vep,” from writer-director Olivier Assayas, based on his 1996 film of the same name. Starring Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander (“Ex Machina”) and produced in partnership with A24, the series premieres June 6 on HBO and HBO Max.
Vikander plays Mira, an American film star fresh out of a relationship and disillusioned by her career. She comes to France to play the role of Irma Vep — an anagram for “vampire” — in a remake of the French silent film “Les Vampires.” As she takes on the role, the line between fiction and reality begins to blur, and Mira struggles to grasp the world around her.
Assayas’ original film starred Maggie Cheung as herself and functioned as commentary on the state of French cinema at the time. Like the limited series, the film debuted at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. HBO’s “Irma Vep” will...
Vikander plays Mira, an American film star fresh out of a relationship and disillusioned by her career. She comes to France to play the role of Irma Vep — an anagram for “vampire” — in a remake of the French silent film “Les Vampires.” As she takes on the role, the line between fiction and reality begins to blur, and Mira struggles to grasp the world around her.
Assayas’ original film starred Maggie Cheung as herself and functioned as commentary on the state of French cinema at the time. Like the limited series, the film debuted at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. HBO’s “Irma Vep” will...
- 5/17/2022
- by Sasha Urban
- Variety Film + TV
1996s “Irma Vep” saw Olivier Assayas contribute to a rich tapestry of meta cinema stretching back to Federico Fellini’s 1963 masterpiece “8½.” Itself drawing upon François Truffaut’s metafictional “Day For Night” as a direct source, the film followed René Vidal, an over-the-hill film director whose recent output has descended into alienating pseudo-intellectualism, and his attempt to remake the classic French film serial, “Les Vampires.” Introducing veteran of Hong Kong cinema, Maggie Cheung, to a western audience, playing herself as an actress cast in the fictional director’s film as Irma (keeping up?), Assayas’ film contemplated the nature of the creative process, using its verité aesthetic to capture the mania of a film set while also providing a broader meditation on the state of modern French cinema.
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- 5/17/2022
- by Matthew McMillan
- The Playlist
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