With Alicia Vikander as a Hollywood star acting in a French crime serial, Olivier Assayas' series refracts his 1996 masterpiece through a dizzyingly playful prism.
This article contains minor spoilers. In 1996, Hong Kong screen icon Maggie Cheung Man-yuk travelled to Paris to star in French director Olivier Assayas ’ Irma Vep – an avant-garde, behind-the-scenes satire about a film adaptation of Louis Feuillade’s 1916 silent crime serial Les Vampires. Cheung and Assayas married in 1998, only to divorce three years later. At last month’s.