One of the most striking and critically acclaimed French films of the 1990s, Irma Vep offers a witty and insightful comment on film-making in that decade. The film demonstrates not just the precarious nature of an industry which is constantly constrained by time and money, and its susceptibility to personal whims and prejudices, but also provides an eye-opening résumé of the whole film making process. The film was directed by Olivier Assayas, a one-time critic who has since gained a reputation as one of France’s most promising filmmakers.Read More »
Olivier Assayas
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Olivier Assayas – Irma Vep (1996) (HD)
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Olivier Assayas – Doubles vies AKA Non-Fiction (2018) (HD)
2011-2020ComedyDramaFranceOlivier AssayasSynopsis
Set in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their heads, as they cope with a middle-age crisis, the changing industry and their wives.Read More » -
Olivier Assayas – Laissé inachevé à Tokyo (1982)
1981-1990ArthouseFranceOlivier AssayasShort FilmAbout two novelists, one returning from Japan with an adventure story she has not completed, the other in Japan, at work typing his next novel.Read More »
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Olivier Assayas – Noise (2006)
Olivier Assayas2001-2010DocumentaryFrancePerformanceQuote:
Abstract documentary account of the 2005 Festival Art Rock in Saint-Brieuc, France, featuring performances by Sonic Youth, Metric and others.Performances by:
MIRROR/DASH (kim gordon – thurston moore)
JEANNE BALIBAR/RODOLPHE BURGER
METRIC
TEXT OF LIGHT (lee ranaldo – steve shelley)
AFEL BOCOUM
MARIE MODIANO
ALLA
WHITE TAHINA (joanna preiss – vincent epplay)
PASCAL RAMBERT
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Olivier Assayas – Après mai AKA Something in the Air (2012)
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In the months after the heady weeks of May ’68, a group of young Europeans search for a way to continue the revolution believed to be just beginning.Read More » -
Olivier Assayas – Une nouvelle vie AKA A New Life (1993)
1991-2000DramaFranceOlivier AssayasTina is a young warehousewoman in a supermarket. She is in love with Fred but still lives at her mother Nadine’s. When Nadine dies, Tina looks for meeting her father Ludovic, who she never knew. But she first meets her half-sister Lise, and Constantin, the unusual Ludovic’s lawyer.Read More »
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Olivier Assayas – Wasp Network (2019)
2011-2020DramaOlivier AssayasSpainQuote:
Based on a true and gripping story: Cuban spies infiltrate exile groups in the 1990s to stop terrorism against the island, but at a high personal cost.Read More » -
Olivier Assayas – Fin août, début septembre AKA Late August, Early September (1998)
1991-2000ArthouseDramaFranceOlivier AssayasQuote:
Olivier Assayas directed this French drama, examining several relationships over a year’s span, capturing varying textures and shades of feeling between people from late August of one year until early September of the next. Gabriel (Mathieu Amalric) and Jenny (Jeanne Balibar) separate, despite the affection that still binds them. A new love develops between Gabriel and young designer Anne (Virginie Ledoyen) as they overcome their fears and uncertainties.Read More » -
Olivier Assayas – Demonlover [Director’s Cut] (2002)
2001-2010ArthouseFranceMysteryOlivier AssayasQuote:
Twenty years after David Cronenberg prophesised the dark side of the Internet age in Videodrome, acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep) updated it for the New Millennium in his startlingly prescient Demonlover, a chilling exploration of the nexus between sex and violence available at the click of a button.Read More »
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