Irma Vep was written and directed by Olivier Assayas, who previously contributed to Cahiers du cinema and was particularly critical of the then-shambolic state of the French film industry.

《迷离劫》的编剧和导演是奥利弗·阿萨·亚斯，他曾经为《电影手册》做过杂志影评人，并对法国电影业当时混乱的状态持有特别批判的态度。

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This nasty globalist thriller from the writer-director Olivier Assayas stars Asia Argento, who, despite her minimal acting technique, is a sexual presence on the screen.

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Assayas is a virtuoso with the camera, and he may have something serious to say about the brutal impersonality of global capitalism, yet the characters jump around so much, and shift alliances so rapidly, that you wind up not giving a damn about any of them.

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