1 option
Irma Vep
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures, French.
- Foreign films.
- Drama.
- Comedy.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- The Criterion Collection 1996
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2022
- System Details:
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- Olivier Assayas's live-wire international breakthrough stars a magnetic Maggie Cheung as a version of herself: a Hong Kong action-movie star who arrives in Paris to play the latex-clad lead in a remake of Louis Feuillade's classic silent crime serial "Les vampires." What she finds is a behind-the-scenes tangle of barely controlled chaos as egos clash, romantic attractions simmer, and an obsessive director (a cannily cast Jean-Pierre Léaud) drives himself to the brink to realize his vision. Blending blasts of silent cinema, martial-arts flicks, and the music of Sonic Youth and Luna into a hallucinatory swirl of postmodern cool, Assayas composes in IRMA VEP a witty critique of the nineties French film industry and the perennial tension between art and commercial entertainment
- Participant:
- Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Maggie Cheung, Nathalie Richard
- Notes:
- Vendor supplied data
- Film
- In Process Record
- Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1996
- OCLC:
- 1303724959
- Publisher Number:
- 12814135 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.