In late ’96 (or 25 and 1/2 years ago) Olivier Assayas‘ Irma Vep was released. Starring Maggie Cheung as herself, it was about a middle-aged French film director (Jean-Pierre Léaud) trying to remake Louis Feuillade’s Les Vampires. Now comes Assayas’ new Irma Vep, an eight episode miniseries starring Alicia Vikander as a movie star who travels to France to star in a big-budget arthouse film.
Out of respect for Assayas and particularly his masterful Personal Shopper (’16), attention must be paid.