Shadow Play.

BOOKS & the ARTS The anxiety around the state of cinema that olivier Assayas captured in his 1996 international breakthrough, Irma Vep, has proved remarkably enduring. While the movie version of Irma Vep was primarily in conversation with the film industry, the TV series engages not only with today's cinema and Les Vampires but also with the original Irma Vep. "Whenever cinema is in chaos, you can do a new Irma Vep, and I felt pretty much that cinema was in the moment of chaos", Assayas told Filmmaker magazine earlier this summer. [Extracted from the article]