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Miniseries debuts June 6 on HBO and HBO Max

French director Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper, Summer Hours) adapts his own acclaimed 1996 movie into a satirical (and extremely meta) A24-produced limited series. (Before you ask, it's not the director's first TV miniseries; he previously directed the massively acclaimed Carlos.) Taking over the role analogous to the one portrayed in the original film by Maggie Cheung (though Cheung was playing a version of herself), Alicia Vikander plays a disillusioned American actress who heads to Paris to star in a remake of the French silent film Les Vampires. But things get complicated on the problem-plagued set when the lines between her character and her real self begin to blur. The international cast also includes Tom Sturridge, Byron Bowers, Carrie Brownstein, Adira Arjona, Fala Chen, and Vincent Macaigne, while Assayas regular Kristen Stewart will also make an appearance. And the soundtrack comes from Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter.

The first three episodes of Irma Vep just screened at Cannes (where the original film also premiered), and critics liked what they saw, finding the new series even more comedic than the original. Reviewers also compared it to the French comedy series Call My Agent, HBO's Barry, and Assayas' own Clouds of Sils Maria, which all similarly depict the world of film (and/or TV) production.