Irma Vep at HOME

Tom Grieve, Cinema Editor Last Updated 6 May 2021

Irma Vep at HOME Manchester, Manchester 27 June 2021 Tickets from £5.50 — Book now

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 realise his vision.

Blending blasts of silent cinema, martial-arts flicks, and the music of Sonic Youh 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.

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Irma Vep at HOME Manchester, Manchester 27 June 2021

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