In the upcoming 'Irma Vep' series, filmmaker Olivier Assayas once again blurs the lines between fiction and reality.
The work of the inventive French filmmaker Olivier Assayas can be described as many things. His approach feels both patient and poetic, infused with a humorous sensibility that can quickly shift into being more somber. He has been associated with a movement that is known as the New French Extremity for what is perceived as his more transgressive stylings though is also not simply confined to the classification.
Based on the first four episodes of the series, this work sees Assayas dipping into this well of meta storytelling with glee as he seems to be both pillorying himself and the process of production. It felt rather similar to what his fellow French filmmaker Gaspar Noé did in his recent Lux Æterna. Still, it is important to note this most recent work sees Assayas focusing more on characters with all their insecurities and flaws laid bare in a manner that is all too familiar.
Following that, there was the intriguing and illusive Personal Shopper that again starred Stewart as an assistant dealing with spiritual as well as technological disruption. As the two begin to meld together into a personal crisis, it feels like it is both a treatise on loss and the way the star herself was made the target of our collective scrutiny.
All of these aspects in his body of work could be superficially read as being about jokes and comedy, though the meta becomes a way Assayas grapples with a greater sense of looming tragedy. All of the ways he creates abstractions between fiction and reality contain plenty of merriment though it soon becomes almost mournful. In tying everything so closely to authentic emotions and observations, Assayas makes everything feel that much more impactful.
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