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Join us at 1 p.m. Sunday, June 8th for director Oliver Assayas’ dazzling film-industry satire “Irma Vep,” starring Maggie Cheung, which inspired the recent HBO miniseries.
IRMA VEP | 1996 | DIRECTOR: Oliver Assayas | WITH: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Nathalie Boutefeu | UNRATED contains sexual situations and adult content | RUNNING TIME: 1H 39M | In English and French with English subtitles
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 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.
“There are innumerable great touches, big and small, in ‘Irma Vep,’ which is organic and alive like few movies ever are. (It was shot on the fly in three weeks, and the spontaneity shows.) But the one sequence that everyone who’s seen the film remembers is a restless Maggie slipping into her catsuit after hours and skulking around the hotel like Irma Vep in the movie. Only this time, she embodies the role effortlessly—she’s sexy, mysterious, resourceful, and liberated. — Scott Tobias, The AV Club
Tickets are $6 (including service charge) and available at link above. Students use code STUDENT at checkout for free admission (must show student ID at the door).
