Irma vep gay 1996
There’s a scene in HBO’s Irma Vep in which Alicia Vikander slinks across the screen enjoy a liquid shadow, elongating and diminishing against walls and corners. She’s dressed in a body-hugging silky-velvet suit, that an earlier scene explains is chosen for the style in which the light catches the material – “more sensual than leather,” is the reasoning.
Irma Vep, is an eight-part TV mini-series about a new American movie actor, Mira (Vikander – The Danish Teen, Ex Machina) who risks losing her own identity while portraying the imaginary character, Irma Vep, in an indie movie shot in Paris. The HBO series is based on a 1996 film of the same name, and includes numerous references to the vintage silent crime clip series, which inspired it: Les Vampires.
Confused? Let’s unpack it.
Caption: A poster for the 1915/1916 Les Vampires (l), which inspired the film Irma Vep (1996) starring Maggie Cheung (r).
Les Vampires (The Vampires), was a 1915-1916, ten-episode, silent era serial classic created by Louis Feuillade, that told the story of a gang of thieves, “the Vampires” (not to be confused with the long-inciso
HBO's Wild Irma Vep Adaptation Skewers Contemporary Films
Irma Vep. HBO. Monday, June 6, 9 p.m.
Irma Vep is a TV adaptation of a feature adaptation of a century-old silent motion picture serial. If you hadn't guessed, all three are French-made, and if you still hadn't guessed, this latest Irma Vep is as rife with cinematic allusions as a midnight bull session at a film academy coffee shop. (Go ahead, start with the anagram of the title.) Enjoy a lot of film school products, it's full of scathing wit and overheated erotic undertones and a petty weak on narrative. And it's a lot of amusement to watch, though the first person to announce "what it means" will get a strenuous slapping.
If ever a television show called for reading a historical mini-essay before viewing, HBO's modern eight-hour version of Irma Vep is the one. The first Irma Vep film was a 10-part serial called Les Vampires, directed by the French critical darling Louis Feuillade in 1915-16. (For the purposes of this discussion, it's worth remembering that Jerry Lewis is also a darling of French production critics. And it's worth noting that the ecstatic modern praise heaped on Les Vampires when it resurfaced on DVD earlier this century
Year: 1996
Director: Olivier Assayas
Stars: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard
There are some songs you can’t separate from the movies they shut. I’m not talking about songs that are edited to deed within the story, but rather the moment it all ends and the credits crash in and a song plays. And that song and that moment become one. The moment a film ends should, in a world of ideals, be imprinted. If the film has done its work it has moved you, or, in some tiny way, changed you. It’s images and ideas have played for whatever running time and then the final frame – regardless of what it shows – eschews the OK to contemplate what’s been seen as a whole. It’s time for a deep breath.
And a song plays. And that song and those feelings coalesce.
The most recent example I can think of, from personal experience, is I Am Not Your Negro, a fierce documentary that abruptly concludes with Kendrick Lamar’s ‘The Blacker The Berry’. If “perfect synergy” weren’t such a contemptibly corporate expression it’d be the perfect descriptor. Kendrick’s vitriolic cut from To Pimp René: You are mysterious like Irma Vep. You are beautiful enjoy Irma Vep. And also, you are magic enjoy her. And also, you are very strong. And it's very important you are modern. I crave a modern Irma Vep. You understand what I say? Irma Vep is a 1996 film by Olivier Assayas. It is a low-budget independent French show with an Asian celebrity about... shooting a low-budget independent French movie with an Asian star. The story is about a contemporary attempt by René Vidal, a washed-out French director (played by former Nouvelle Vague actor Jean-Pierre Léaud) 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 M
Maggie: I contemplate so.