Irma Vep

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Irma Vep

1996

Directed by Olivier Assayas

A Latex Comedy

A has-been French filmmaker wants a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine in a rendering of Les Vampires.

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Karsten
Review by Karsten ★★★★ Liked

that ending was one of the coolest things i’ve seen in a movie. filmmaking seems fun!

Simon
Review by Simon ★★★★½ Liked 1

A satire on the filmmaking process and how misguided the film industry is, touching upon tentpole films and pointless remakes, female sexualization/male gaze, and the idea that many filmmakers make films out of their own selfish desires instead of making them for people to resonate with, to be challenged, or for artists to truly express themselves.

That said, it never once feels condescending and instead comes purely from a place of love and passion for cinema, and it’s all further elevated by wonderful work from Maggie Cheung (playing herself) and Olivier Assayas’s direction.

A must see for any film lover.

Alex Kittle
Review by Alex Kittle ★★★½ 5

omg I never realized that "IRMA VEP" was an anagram for "VAMPIRE" ??????? HOW do I have a master's degree!??!?!?!

Mike D'Angelo
Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★★★ 11

92/100

Celebrating 20 years of being powerless to articulate my intense love for this glorious whatsit. As I wrote back in '97, it "seems in some bizarre way to entirely transcend logic and reason, so that whatever limited critical faculties I possess are completely disengaged, and I'm reduced to pointing at the screen with a wild-eyed, gleeful expression." What I'm mostly responding to, I think, is Assayas' passion both for Cheung and for cinema itself—more specifically, to the way that those two passions intersect and collide. He's made a movie that's fundamentally an open letter to himself asking why he feels driven to make this movie, and he never does come up with a coherent answer. In less assured hands,…

#1 gizmo fan
Review by #1 gizmo fan ★★★★ Liked 8

olivier assayas sure does love his lesbians.. and not making sense...

Patrick Willems
Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★ 5

I think this movie is awesome despite the fact that characters in it diss Batman Returns AND Police Story. Monstrous behavior.

Sally Jane Black
Review by Sally Jane Black

I get why so many people are obsessed with Maggie Cheung now.

This is a dream-like film wherein Cheung plays herself in a collapsing film production, caught as an outsider in a strange, detached world. The film is at once a critique of cinema and filmmaking and a strange sort of fantasy.

robyn
Review by robyn ★★★★½

what is love if it’s not watching maggie cheung rolling around to sonic youth

Emily Housel
Review by Emily Housel ★★★★½

she likes girls, she likes boys, she likes latex.
Maggie Cheung is outrageously hot in that latex suit god damn. and the last few minutes of this film is perfection!

Logan Kenny
Review by Logan Kenny ★★★★★ Liked 1

One of the best endings in cinematic history. Would go in depth but my mind is fucking fried

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