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Irma Vep arrives 30 years after Robert AltmanвЂ™s classic 1992 satire The Player, starring Tim Robbins as a stuffed shirt at a Hollywood studio whose sins include avarice, idiocy, and even murder.

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The trouble with this setup is not that itвЂ™s wrong - lots of movie stars want to be thought of as serious actors, including, presumably, Vikander, whose credits include both Tomb Raider and Jason Bourne as well as the considerably more serious Ex Machina and The Light Between Oceans - but that itвЂ™s all a little lame. вЂњBlockbusters let you make the movies you want,вЂќ mumbles MiraвЂ™s filmwise personal assistant, Regina (Devon Ross, who, with her commentary on the sociopolitical meanings of zombie movies and her well-worn copy of a book of film criticism by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, behaves like a reject from a Jim Jarmusch movie). MiraвЂ™s agent Zelda (Carrie Brownstein) sounds positively giddy when it appears that the financing for the remake will fall through and thus enable Mira to take on the role of a female Silver Surfer in a вЂњhigh-concept, feminist, lady-led superhero movie.вЂќ But Mira is making a stand for art. Other than as an excuse for Mira to book a trip to Paris, the prospects for the project look dodgy.

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Wishing to expand her artistic horizons, Mira has signed up to star as Irma Vep, a femme fatale poured into a form-fitting catsuit and the head of the gang the Vampires, in director Rene VidalвЂ™s (Vincent Macaigne) new version of Les Vampires (which, pretentious twit that he is, he insists is not a series but вЂњa film, admittedly a bit long, divided into eight piecesвЂќ - a nice line).

We can see how silly Doomsday is when, early in the first episode, Mira, as played by Vikander, a brunette so cool and self-contained that even Alfred Hitchcock could love her, dons a white wig and spacesuit to pose with a couple of futuristic guns for a fashion magazine photo shoot to promote the movie. ItвЂ™s just another remake, this one stretched from feature length to series length without any justification other than the fact that arty series are popular these days and arty films arenвЂ™t.ДЄctually, HollywoodвЂ™s comic book-based blockbusters - things like the Spider-Man movies - play a big part in AssayasвЂ™s strained satire in the new Irma Vep: Substituting for the far more mysterious Maggie Cheung, who had the leading role in AssayasвЂ™s earlier film, Swedish actress Alicia Vikander stars as Mira, a leading lady from the United States whose latest movie, a comic book adaptation called Doomsday, has made something like a zillion bucks. Perhaps the balance of Irma Vep will prove pleasingly serpentine, rather than ploddingly dull, but if this is meant to be cutting-edge meta, well, then so is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Escher or even David LynchвЂ™s 2001 feverish fantasy of modern Hollywood, Mulholland Drive. On the basis of the first three episodes in the series, weвЂ™re not talking about a work as imaginatively self-referential as, say, a piece of art by M.C.

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Thus, Assayas might be said to be holding up a mirror to a film from the 1990s that was holding up a mirror to a serial from the 1910s.

This designation rests on the fact that French filmmaker Olivier AssayasвЂ™s eight-part limited series is a remake of his 1996 feature film, also titled Irma Vep, and that both iterations of the project - the present series and the past feature - center on a fictional French filmmaker who has turned his attention to remaking Louis FeuilladeвЂ™s silent film serial Les Vampires, released in 19, which focused on a coterie of criminals, the Vampires. If youвЂ™ve been paying attention to the press coverage of the trendy new HBO series Irma Vep, youвЂ™ve undoubtedly encountered references to its purported вЂњmetaвЂќ qualities.

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