Irma Vep

"A delightfully nonchalant movie, complete with some nice satirical barbs aimed at contemporary French film culture, and fine performances throughout."

"A film of such spontaneity, freshness and breezy chaos that you feel as if it were assembled from happy accidents and inspired, seat-of- the-pants improvisation."

"As effortless as a shrug and boasts a film buff's dream cast."

"Scripted in ten days and shot in less than a month, the film unravels like a delirious piece of automatic writing..."

"Cheung, slinking around the corridors of her hotel in her sheath of shiny black latex to the dissonant chords of Sonic Youth, is an instant icon of everything cool."

"It's a languorous love ballad, and a daring one, about the way moving pictures move, the way they hold light, the way they steal from us when we're not looking."

"Minor but witty."

"A funny and fascinatingly open-ended look at the state of the art, Irma Vep is well worth a look."

"Slender but appealing."

"Ultimately, Irma Vep doesn't quite have the courage of its convictions, but still provides plenty of scathing satire on the state of French cinema."