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| rdfs:comment | - Irma Vep est un film français réalisé par Olivier Assayas et sorti en 1996.
- Irma Vep was a leading agent and strategist of the mysterious gang that called themselves The Vampires. The Vampires were master thieves and assassins, skilled in fighting, infiltration and even hypnotism. They dressed in tight black leotards and ninja-like masks. They used poison, knockout gas and conventional firearms in battle. The Vampires operated in Paris under the command of the Grand Vampire. Irma was hypnotized by Juan Moreno, a rival gangster, into killing the Grand Vampire, but later, it was revealed that there was an even higher authority pulling the strings. After Irma was caputred and sentenced to an Algerian penal colony, Satanas, "Lord of the Vampires" used an electronic cannon to destroy the ship she was travelling on. Irma survived, escaped and returned to Paris. After Sa
- Irma Vep is a low-budget independent French movie with an Asian star about... shooting a low-budget independent French movie with an Asian star. The story is about a contemporary attempt by a washed-out French director (played by former Nouvelle Vague actor Jean-Pierre Leaud) to shoot a remake of Les Vampires, a 1915 silent film serial by Louis Feuillade, depicting the adventures of a gang of thieves led by a Femme Fatale who went by the name of Irma Vep (anagram of Vampire). The movie is being made on a shoestring, the crew are a squabbling bunch and nothing goes right. In the middle of it all arrives the Asian star chosen for the lead role, Maggie Cheung--played by Maggie Cheung.
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| abstract | - Irma Vep is a low-budget independent French movie with an Asian star about... shooting a low-budget independent French movie with an Asian star. The story is about a contemporary attempt by a washed-out French director (played by former Nouvelle Vague actor Jean-Pierre Leaud) to shoot a remake of Les Vampires, a 1915 silent film serial by Louis Feuillade, depicting the adventures of a gang of thieves led by a Femme Fatale who went by the name of Irma Vep (anagram of Vampire). The movie is being made on a shoestring, the crew are a squabbling bunch and nothing goes right. In the middle of it all arrives the Asian star chosen for the lead role, Maggie Cheung--played by Maggie Cheung. Maggie doesn't speak French and is quite surprised by the lack of organization, in stark contrast with the no-nonsense professionalism she's accustomed to from the Hong Kong movie scene. She nonetheless tries her best to follow the director's obscure instructions, and things begin to fall into place. Her part requires her to dress up in a fetish rubber bodysuit with built-in corset, which she develops a certain fascination for, and at one point puts it on to become a real-life cat burglar for a night. However, just as it seemed that the movie could be finished in spite of everything, the director has a nervous breakdown and is replaced by another one, whose first decision is to remove Maggie Cheung from the cast. All that's left of the first director's work is a surrealistic montage of scratched rushes. A real-life development that took place during the shooting of Irma Vep is that its director Olivier Assayas and Maggie Cheung started dating, and got married soon afterwards. They later got divorced but have on another occasion worked together again, on Clean.
- Irma Vep was a leading agent and strategist of the mysterious gang that called themselves The Vampires. The Vampires were master thieves and assassins, skilled in fighting, infiltration and even hypnotism. They dressed in tight black leotards and ninja-like masks. They used poison, knockout gas and conventional firearms in battle. The Vampires operated in Paris under the command of the Grand Vampire. Irma was hypnotized by Juan Moreno, a rival gangster, into killing the Grand Vampire, but later, it was revealed that there was an even higher authority pulling the strings. After Irma was caputred and sentenced to an Algerian penal colony, Satanas, "Lord of the Vampires" used an electronic cannon to destroy the ship she was travelling on. Irma survived, escaped and returned to Paris. After Satanas was captured, a man calling himself "Venomous" became the new Lord of the Vampires. Irma and Venemous were engaged to be married before Venemous was killed. Vep worked as a singer at the Howling Cat nightclub and demonstrated good acting ability by posing as a variety of characters, using such aliases as Juliette Barteaux and Aurelie Plateau.
- Irma Vep est un film français réalisé par Olivier Assayas et sorti en 1996.
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