HBO's Olivier Assayas-helmed TV series Irma Vep might be a love letter to the chaos of moviemaking, but it also brought a moment of peace in his relationship with ex-wife Maggie Cheung. In an ...

Olivier Assayas’ 1996 Irma Vep is one of the great self-reflexive films about both filmmaking and the tumultuous and ever-shifting state of people, artists and the industry, detailing the bumpy ...

French filmmaker Oliver Assayas’ “Irma Vep,” a streaming series adaptation of his own movie adaptation of a silent serial, has become a stealthy summer treat, and the finale, premiering Monday on HBO ...

Irma Vep, the TV miniseries, is a sequel and a reboot of the 1996 movie where Maggie Cheung plays a Hong Kong movie star that's a version of herself who goes to Paris to star in a troubled remake of ...

A 2022 TV series based on a 1996 film that was inspired by a 1915 French serial, “Irma Vep” by Olivier Assayas might have prospective viewers prepared to enter a hall of mirrors ringing with echoes.

The anxiety around the state of cinema that Olivier Assayas captured in his 1996 international breakthrough, Irma Vep, has proved remarkably enduring. The French auteur uses the setting, a troubled ...

Adam Grinwald is a Feature Writer at Collider with a lifelong passion for cinema, literature, music, and culture. From the early days of memorizing practically every single line of dialogue off a ...

In the fourth episode of Olivier Assayas’s HBO remake-slash-update of his film Irma Vep, an actress arrives in Paris from Hong Kong and lands right in the middle of a chaotic French shoot. It’s a ...

Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Danish Girl) is the glue that holds together Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas’ ultra-meta reinterpretation of his 1996 film of the same name. In the eight-episode HBO ...