Written and directed by Emmy® nominee Olivier Assayas (“Carlos”), starring Academy Award® Winner Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Lady”) and produced in partnership with A24, IRMA VEP will debut MONDAY, JUNE 6 (9:00 – 10:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO and might be obtainable to stream on HBO Max. IRMA VEP will make its world premiere as an Official Choice on the Competition De Cannes 2022.
HBO has launched three first-look photographs from the eight-episode restricted sequence.
Logline: Mira (Alicia Vikander) is an American film star disillusioned by her profession and a current breakup, who involves France to star as “Irma Vep” in a remake of the French silent movie traditional, “Les Vampires.” Set towards the backdrop of a lurid crime thriller, Mira struggles because the distinctions between herself and the character she performs start to blur and merge. IRMA VEP reveals to us the unsure floor that lies on the border of fiction and actuality, artifice and authenticity, artwork and life.
About Olivier Assayas: Olivier Assayas is a French filmmaker who has grow to be a serious voice in worldwide up to date cinema. He began his profession as a painter and graphic designer. Later, he started making his personal quick movies whereas pursuing his curiosity in globalizing tradition and expertise as an editor of Cahiers du Cinema (1980-1985). Since his first function movie, “Désordre” (1986), which was awarded the Critic’s Week Prize on the Venice Biennale, he has persistently delivered a wealthy and numerous physique of labor that has introduced him worldwide recognition. Amongst his most celebrated movies are: “Irma Vep”; “Summer season Hours”; named one of many “Greatest Movies of the twenty first Century (to date),” by The New York Occasions; “Demonlover”; “Clear”; “Carlos”; which gained a Golden Globe® for Greatest Mini-Sequence or Movement Image Made for Tv and garnered two Emmy® nominations together with Excellent Path for a Mini-Sequence, Film or Dramatic Particular; “Clouds of Sils Maria,” for which Kristen Stewart gained the Cesar for Greatest Supporting Actress; “Private Shopper,” which gained the Directing Prize at Cannes; “One thing within the Air,” which gained Greatest Screenplay at Venice; and most not too long ago “Non-Fiction” and “Wasp Community.”
Forged: Alicia Vikander as Mira, Vincent Macaigne as René Vidal, Jeanne Balibar as Zoe, Devon Ross as Regina, Lars Eidinger as Gottfried, Vincent Lacoste as Edmond Lagrange, Nora Hamzawi as Carla, Adria Arjona as Laurie, Carrie Brownstein as Zelda, Tom Sturridge as Eamonn, Byron Bowers as Herman, Fala Chen as Cynthia Keng, Hippolyte Girardot as Robert Danjou, Alex Descas as Gregory Desormeaux, Antoine Reinartz as Jeremie.
Credit: Government producers, Olivier Assayas, Alicia Vikander, Sylvie Barthet, Daniel Delume, Ravi Nandan, Hallie Sekoff, Kevin Turen, Stuart Manashil, Sam Levinson, Ashley Levinson
