Irma Vep (1996)

Directors

Olivier Assayas

Cast

Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler, Nathalie Boutefeu, Alex Descas, Dominique Faysse

The story

In an attempt to revitalise his career, washed-up film director René Vidal resolves to remake Louis Feuillade's silent film serial Les Vampires. Maggie Cheung has been cast to play the film's heroine, Irma Vep, a burglar and a spy, who dresses in a tight, black, latex rubber catsuit. Irma Vep, it is explained, is an anagram for vampire, but she is not a literal vampire.

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