Featured Audience Ratings

• Jim H

  
  A director tries to remake Les Vampires. I'm not really sure what I saw. On the one hand, I see some clever satire about French film here, especially with the interviewer complaining about intellectual film in an intellectual film, Rene's mumblingly intense focus on… More
  A director tries to remake Les Vampires. I'm not really sure what I saw. On the one hand, I see some clever satire about French film here, especially with the interviewer complaining about intellectual film in an intellectual film, Rene's mumblingly intense focus on process, and the costume designer using a bondage mask. On the other hand, I think one would have to know the history behind Les Vampires in order to be in on the joke, and I'm not sure what to make of the romance between Maggie and Zoe. And what is going one with Maggie Cheung playing herself? Once again, I feel like there's a reason for this choice, but it isn't communicated with any clarity. Overall, I left this film confused and not in a good way.

• El Hombre I

  
  Burned out new wave director, played by one-time Truffaut alter ego Jean-Pierre Léaud, decides to remake Louis Feuillade's french melodrama, Les Vampires, with the Hong Kong starlet Maggie Cheung as the black-latex-clad leader of a gang of jewel thieves. Amusing… More
  Burned out new wave director, played by one-time Truffaut alter ego Jean-Pierre Léaud, decides to remake Louis Feuillade's french melodrama, Les Vampires, with the Hong Kong starlet Maggie Cheung as the black-latex-clad leader of a gang of jewel thieves. Amusing behind-the-scenes look at the French film industry that's critical of how it's funded, how it looks upon its' cinematic legacy and how its' complancency, seriousness, self-importance, fighting and jealousies crush any real creativity. Maggie Cheung, who in the film can't understand the french language, is great to watch as she's allowed to be herself and put her own personality into the film, improvising and reacting with surprise and incomprehension to the insanity around her. <a href="http://s273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/?action=view&current=IrmaVep.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj203/goji9000/IrmaVep.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

• Brett W

  
  A movie about a failed movie that ends up being a failed movie...gee...what paradox. Save yourself an hour and thirty minutes and just skip to the 55 min mark which is the only worth while scene in the film; the lovely Maggie Cheung in a rainy, Blade Runner-esque rooftop scene. Other… More
  A movie about a failed movie that ends up being a failed movie...gee...what paradox. Save yourself an hour and thirty minutes and just skip to the 55 min mark which is the only worth while scene in the film; the lovely Maggie Cheung in a rainy, Blade Runner-esque rooftop scene. Other than her drop-dead gorgeousness and that brief moment of poetic cinematography, this is an extraordinary failure of "story within a story" storytelling...mostly because there is no story. There's no focus at all unless you count the bland, never ending, disoriented French/Chinese culture clash.

• Anthony V

  
  Lots of inside jokes, especially for fans of Truffaut.

• Krystle C

  
  I don't know how to react to this movie - it's uber-stylish and Maggie Cheung's wide-eyed disorientation is perfect (I mean, the role was written for her, after all); it's an entertaining glimpse into the behind-the-scenes catfights in filmmaking, as well. The… More
  I don't know how to react to this movie - it's uber-stylish and Maggie Cheung's wide-eyed disorientation is perfect (I mean, the role was written for her, after all); it's an entertaining glimpse into the behind-the-scenes catfights in filmmaking, as well. The hand-held cam gives it a documentary touch and gives us a sense of Maggie's disorientation in a foreign land, and of the disconnect between the people on-set. But do I love it? Needs a second viewing...