Irma Vep is a magnificently varied film, integrating film footage, press interviews, gossip, and film's hurry-up-and-wait production schedule. Cheung in particular does a masterful job playing herself, at once transparent and opaque.

An exhilarating film that happens to be about moviemaking itself, Olivier Assayas's sinuous, kinetic, waggish Irma Vep is an oblique, supremely enjoyable course in movie history.

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

Cut-up and cacophony... breezy yet dense with detail, a punk-inflected meditation on film history as well as a bright comedy about work, lust and latex.