Maggie Cheung is wasted in Olivier Assayas’s Truffaut tribute, IRMA VEP
IRMA VEP (Olivier Assayas, 1996)
BAMcinématek
30 Lafayette Ave. between Ashland Pl. & St. Felix St.
Sunday, October 10, 2:00, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15
Series continues through October 28
718-636-4100
www.bam.org
Olivier Assayas pays homage to François Truffaut’s DAY FOR NIGHT in this piece of pseudoartistic fluff about a film crew’s attempts at remaking Louis Feuillade’s 1915 classic LES VAMPIRES. The great Maggie Cheung, who later married and divorced Assayas, is wasted as the star of the remake, and Truffaut regular Jean-Pierre Léaud, playing the director, is frustratingly unintelligible when he speaks in English, which unfortunately is a lot in this high-falutin’ mess. The film is being shown as part of “Post–Punk Auteur: Olivier Assayas,” consisting of seventeen films by the French writer-director, continuing through October 28.