The ghosts of a silent French film from the early 20th century, which rolled into the cult film “Irma Vep” in 1996, haunt the new series of the same name that aired yesterday on HBO (and is also available to Cellcom TV and yes VOD viewers starting yesterday) And make it a brilliant exercise in meta-cinema. Behind this flash is the excellent French director Olivia Asias, who directed the film in 1996 and returns haunted to complete the mission in 2022, and this idea resonates powerfully in the plot of the series itself, which depicts a production of a TV series called “Irma Vep” with eccentric director A remake of his old movie bearing the same name tag, like a spooky matryoshka doll of a series within a movie within a series within a movie.
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The plot of the series focuses on Mira (the wonderful Alicia Vikander, who recently starred in “The Green Knight”), an American blockbuster actress who is fed up with her superficial career and is recovering from a difficult breakup, who arrives in France to play a remake of the silent film classic “Les Vampires”. ), Her sucking ex and also the equally sucking ex, and slowly goes crazy when the line between the character she plays and her begins to blur against the backdrop of a chilling crime drama, with everything immersed in a lot of humor and sadness from Asias’ meta-contemplative gaze on the cinematic work itself.
At least according to the first episode, the series is a big and ultra-intelligent celebration for movie and film lovers, and an equally big celebration for HBO TV lovers with a sexy and complex series immersed in a gay atmosphere, a work that critics in the United States have already dubbed “the most sophisticated series. -HBO has ever created “. For us it’s definitely enough to mark it as the new series to be based on and read recaps, fan theories and cinematic analyzes, and you really should jump on it before it gets trendy so you can patronize everyone later. And what’s more fun than that? Nothing .
>> “Irma Vep”, eight episodes in a weekly broadcast, now on Cellcom TV and yes VOD