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- HBO
- Nov 30, 2021
- HBO
- Nov 30, 2021
Summary Disillusioned American actress Mira (Alicia Vikander) comes to France to film a remake of the French silent film classic, "Les Vampires." She begins to find it difficult to separate herself from the character she plays in this eight-episode limited series based on 1996 film of the same name from Olivier Assayas.
- HBO
- Nov 30, 2021
- HBO
- Nov 30, 2021
Summary Disillusioned American actress Mira (Alicia Vikander) comes to France to film a remake of the French silent film classic, "Les Vampires." She begins to find it difficult to separate herself from the character she plays in this eight-episode limited series based on 1996 film of the same name from Olivier Assayas.
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Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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Irma Vep is a quirky showbiz dramedy with some of the most deceptively smart writing on television, and that’s worth tuning in for.
With so much focus on the mechanics of moviemaking, the show, like the 1996 film, risks becoming too esoteric—as if Assayas were adapting François Truffaut’s Day for Night rather than riffing on a silent movie serial about a group of criminals who call themselves “The Vampires.” But the show exhibits a pleasurable lightness.
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Crackling good, sometimes hilariously farcical showbiz satire. Sure, there are times when you’ll likely get lost in the weeds, but that’s kind of the point, as director Assayas is leading us through a funhouse-mirror maze filled with wonderfully chaotic and deliberately messy developments.
I don't think the director nails the social-media age the way '90s-Irma fully witnessed its own pop-culture landscape. But after the first three episodes, I've fallen for this French froth.
It’s become a cliché, the sort Assayas would pick on in one of his films, to say that good TV rewards patience, but this show really does. Among its pleasures is the work of Vikander.
This Irma Vep is loose and intellectually loopy, broad and jokey one moment and wallowing in sad self-absorption the next. One might compare it to the current season of HBO’s Barry, only with more pretensions, which definitely isn’t a bad thing — though I’m not sure after the three episodes (out of eight total) premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival if Assayas has a conclusive point he wants to make, or if he’s just noodling again on an art form in perpetual transition.