There’s a sequence in Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep (1996) in which Maggie Cheung, playing a wide-eyed and generally passive version of herself, gets to go haywire: A woozy handheld camera watches as she ...
Sad to say, the talented French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has disappointed us once again. Here in the Cannes competition two years ago, he gave us “demonlover,” a film that started brilliantly before ...