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Irma Vep premieres June 6<\/em> <\/strong><\/em>on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.<\/em><\/p>\n

Twenty-six years ago, writer \/ director Olivier Assayas cast the incomparable Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung (In the Mood for Love) as herself in Irma Vep, a satire about filmmaking and the decline of French cinema. A standout movie about making a movie, it remains a worthy watch to this day. Of course, in the last two decades, Hollywood and the state of celebrity and creative storytelling has shifted quite a lot, especially as steaming television has superseded the film medium as the primary source of most global eyes. As such, Assayas has returned to his own creative library to remix Irma Vep as a sly and initially enigmatic eight-episode limited series starring Alicia Vikander.<\/p>\n

In this Irma Vep, Vikander plays Mira, a contemporary and successful American actress in Paris shooting a television series remake of the French silent film classic, Les Vampires. Assayas updates the story with the rigors of modern production in a naturalistic, fly-on-the-wall follow of Mira into the grind of press junkets, worldwide publicity tours, and the awards season hustle. Outside of the actress, there’s also the personal dramas that come with the project’s creative players, like the show’s mercurial, anxiety prone director, Rene (Vincent Macaigne), whose past antics make it impossible to insure him anymore – or, the power moves between two co-stars who broke up badly in the past and are now paired together in this series. A proposed sex scene between the two is used to wage war against one another. And then there’s Mira’s own personal messiness which rears up unexpectedly when her former assistant and lover di lei, Laurie (Adria Arjona), appears in Paris newly engaged to the director of Mira’s last film di lei. What the two once had together is clearly still unresolved and the pair practically spontaneously combust every time they’re in a room together.<\/p>\n

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HBO Max Spotlight: June 2022<\/p>\n