IRMA VEP
‘Cheung is superb’ Empire
‘A wonderful tribute to filmmaking’ Channel4.com
‘Fine performances throughout’ Time Out
Starring
Maggie Cheung
Olivier Assayas
Maggie Cheung (playing herself) has been cast by a once revered but now out of touch director as the latex-clad cat-burglar in his ill-fated remake of the French classic Les Vampires. From the moment she arrives in Paris chaos ensues until the director finally has a breakdown and is replaced by another who doesn’t know why she was cast in the first place. Amidst all the confusion Cheung becomes drawn to her character and is soon pulling on latex and prowling her hotel corridors at night.
This critically-acclaimed satire on the world of filmmaking is one of the freshest and coolest French films of the 90’s
Special features
• Man Yuk – Portrait of Maggie Cheung
• Interview with Olivier Assayas / Charles Tesson
• Interview with Maggie Cheung / Nathalie Richard
• Maggie Cheung Rushes
• Trailer
TITLE (DIRECTOR)
HAIRDRESSER'S HUSBAND, THE (Leconte, Patrice)
HELLZAPOPPIN' (Potter, H.C.)
HOPSCOTCH (Neame, Ronald)
HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF, THE (Rappeneau, Jean-Paul)
I AM CURIOUS YELLOW/BLUE (Sjoman, Vilgot)
IN THE SOUP (Rockwell, Alexandre)
IRMA VEP (Assayas, Olivier)
JOHNNY SUEDE (Di Cillo, Tom)
JUBILEE (Jarman, Derek)
LADY TAKES A CHANCE, A (Seiter, William A.)
LAST OF ENGLAND, THE (Jarman, Derek)
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (Ophuls, Max)
LIVING IN OBLIVION (DiCillo, Tom)
LORD OF THE FLIES (Brooke, Peter)
MACBETH (Welles, Orson)
MADAME DE (Ophuls, Max)
MAJOR BARBARA (Pascal, Gabriel)
MICROCOSMOS (Nuridsany, Claud & Pérennou, Marie)
MONSIEUR HIRE (Leconte, Patrice)
MYRA BRECKINRIDGE (Sarne, Michael)
NOCE BLANCHE (Brisseau, Jean-Claude)
OTHELLO (Welles, Orson)
PANDORA'S BOX (Pabst, Georg Wilhelm)
PATRICE LECONTE COLLECTION, THE (Leconte, Patrice)
PARFUM D'YVONNE, LE (Leconte, Patrice)
PARTING GLANCES (Sherwood, Bill)
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (Weir, Peter)
PLAISIR, LE (Ophuls, Max)
PRETTY POISON (Black, Noel)
PYGMALION (Asquith, Anthony)
