Irma Vep
Contrasting mainstream cinema and auteur film, this bizarre satire mixes seemingly irreconcilable genres, styles and artistic approaches, and makes a humorous assessment of contemporary French film, torn as it is between the past and an unsatisfactory present.
With
- Maggie Cheung (Maggie Cheung)
- Jean-Pierre Léaud (René Vidal)
- Nathalie Richard (Zoé)
- Bulle Ogier (Mireille)
Crew
Written and Directed by | Olivier Assayas |
Cinematography | Eric Gautier |
Editing | Luc Barnier |
Sound | Philippe Richard |
Production Design | François-Renaud Labarthe |
Costumes | Françoise Clavel |
Producer | Georges Benayoun |
World sales
Produced by
Dacia Films
Olivier Assayas
Born in Paris, France in 1955, he studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. He then wrote for “Cahiers du Cinéma”, made several short films and, in 1986, his first feature film, Desordre. In 2011, he was a member of the main competition jury at Cannes. His film Après mai screened in competition at the Venice Film Festival while Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper were presented at Cannes, where the latter won him the Best Director award.
Filmography (selection)
1986 Désordre (Disorder) 1991 Paris s'éveille (Paris Awakens) 1994 Cold Water 1996 Irma Vep 1999 Fin août, début septembre (Late August, Early September) 2000 Les destinées sentimentales (Sentimental Destinies) 2002 Demonlover 2004 Clean 2005 Noise; Documentary 2007 Boarding Gate 2008 L’heure d’été (Summer Hours) 2012 Après mai (Something in the Air) 2014 Clouds of Sils Maria (Die Wolken von Sils Maria) 2016 Personal Shopper 2018 Doubles vies (Non-Fiction) 2019 Wasp Network
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2020