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| Irma Vep | |
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| Directed by | Olivier Assayas |
| Written by | Olivier Assayas |
| Produced by | Georges Benayoun |
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| Cinematography | Éric Gautier |
| Edited by | Luc Barnier |
| Music by | Philippe Richard |
Production company | Dacia Films |
| Distributed by | Haut et Court |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | France |
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| Budget | €1.4 million[1] |
| Box office | $282,310 (US & Canada)[1] |
Irma Vep is a 1996 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Olivier Assayas. Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung plays a fictionalised version of herself, as disasters result when an unstable French film director (played by Jean-Pierre Léaud) attempts to remake Louis Feuillade's classic silent film serial Les Vampires (1915–16). (Irma Vep is an anagram for the word "vampire".) Taking place largely through the eyes of a foreigner (Cheung), it is also a meditation on the state of the French film industry.
Irma Vep was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.[2] It was released in France on 13 November 1996.
In 2022, the film was reimagined as a miniseries for HBO, created by Assayas.
- ^ a b "Irma Vep (1996)". JP's Box-Office (in French).
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Irma Vep". Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved 20 September 2009.