DVD & Blu-ray: Olivier Assayas' IRMA VEP (1996) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: The incomparable Maggie Cheung stars as a version of herself in Olivier Assayas’s international breakthrough The live-wire international breakthrough of Olivier Assayas stars a magnetic Maggie Cheung as a version of herself: a Hong Kong action-movie star who arrives in Paris to play the latex-clad lead in a remake of Louis Feuillade’s classic silent crime serial Les vampires. What she finds is a behind-the-scenes tangle of barely controlled chaos as egos clash, romantic attractions simmer, and an obsessive director (a cannily cast Jean-Pierre Léaud) drives himself to the brink to realize his vision. Blending blasts of silent cinema, martial-arts flicks, and the music of Sonic Youth and Luna into a hallucinatory swirl of postmodern cool, Assayas composes a witty critique of the nineties French film industry and the eternal tension between art and commercial entertainment.

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Director: Olivier Assayas

Starring: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Runtime: 99 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: English

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: April 27, 2021

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DVD - Criterion Collection

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Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Region: Region A

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DVD: Dolby Digital 5.1
Blu-ray: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

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DVD: English, English SDH

Blu-ray: English SDH, English

SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS

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New interview with Assayas
On the Set of "Irma Vep," a behind-the-scenes featurette
Interview from 2003 with Assayas and critic Charles Tesson
Interview from 2003 with actors Maggie Cheung and Nathalie Richard
Musidora, the Tenth Muse (2013), a documentary on the actor who originated the role of Irma Vep
Les vampires: Hypnotic Eyes (1916), the sixth episode in Louis Feuillade's silent-film serial
Man Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung, a 1997 short film by Assayas
Black-and-white rushes for the film
PLUS: An essay by critic Aliza Ma