When a director in decline decides to remake Louis Feuillade’s silent serial Les Vampires, he casts a Hong Kong action heroine who does not speak a word in French. On the chaotic set, she finds petty intrigues, clashing egos and a wardrobe mistress with a crush on her.
Irma Vep
1996
14 years
96 min.
Fiction
France
France, metalanguage, retrospective, cinema history
Colorido, P&B
Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas
Eric Gautier
Luc Barnier
Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler, Nathalie Boutefeu, Alex Descas
Georges Benayoun
Dacia Films
Philippe Richard
MK2
43