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Maggie Cheung as Irma Vep (1996)

In Spring of 2022, when I was just waking up from a long slumber, I saw the HBO remake of Irma Vep. Having never seen the original, I was open to being surprised. And what I saw was electrifying, personally resonant in a way I couldn’t even begin to guess in my freshly post-natal phase of rebirthing myself.

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