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Janet Maslin, New York Times: Minor but witty. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: As effortless as a shrug and boasts a film buff's dream cast. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Scripted in ten days and shot in less than a month, the film unravels like a delirious piece of automatic writing, though in this case the sinister implications apply to a very different world -- our own. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Assayas turns the camera on the behind-the-scenes process, and the results are both comic and revealing. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: It's a languorous love ballad, and a daring one, about the way moving pictures move, the way they hold light, the way they steal from us when we're not looking. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: A film of such spontaneity, freshness and breezy chaos that you feel as if it were assembled from happy accidents and inspired, seat-of- the-pants improvisation. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: Irma Vep's director, Olivier Assayas, evinces a love of the process that's nearly as palpable as Truffaut's. Read more