{"product_id":"irmavep1074","title":"Irma Vep (#1074)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOlivier Assayas’s live-wire international breakthrough 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 in Irma Vep a witty critique of the nineties French film industry and the perennial tension between art and commercial entertainment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew 2K digital restoration, approved by director Olivier Assayas, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew interview with Assayas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the Set of “Irma Vep,” a behind-the-scenes featurette\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterview from 2003 with Assayas and critic Charles Tesson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInterview from 2003 with actors Maggie Cheung and Nathalie Richard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMusidora, the Tenth Muse (2013), a documentary on the actor who originated the role of Irma Vep\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLes vampires: Hypnotic Eyes (1916), the sixth episode in Louis Feuillade’s silent-film serial\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCinema in the Present Tense, a June 2020 address on the state of cinema by Assayas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMan Yuk: A Portrait of Maggie Cheung, a 1997 short film by Assayas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack-and-white rushes for the film\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnglish subtitle translation and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePLUS: An essay by critic Aliza Ma\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Criterion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39349439299628,"sku":"715515258111","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0359\/2201\/8348\/products\/irma-vep-1074-new-blu-ray-715515258111-8753420.jpg?v=1779215410","url":"https:\/\/www.orbitdvd.com\/products\/irmavep1074","provider":"Orbit DVD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}