Irma Issakadze

Album features a full 13 unreleased tracks and represents a major addition to the Irma Thomas discography. Soul Queen Of New Orleans Irma Thomas enjoyed a run of national success in the U.S. in the mid- 60s with classics like Wish Someone Would Care, Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand) along with the original vocal version of Time Is on My Side (later a massive hit for the Rolling Stones), recorded for Imperial Records.

Irma s’en va-t-en guerre entraîne les lectrices et les lecteurs sur les traces d’une femme d’exception, au destin et à la volonté hors du commun, et à la rencontre d’une famille pour le moins originale de Québec.

Hong Kong action superstar Maggie Cheung plays herself in Olivier Assayas' brilliant satire of the movie industry. A film about a fictional remake of a classic silent film with a real-life Hong Kong actress playing herself, Olivier Assayas’s Irma Vep can appear to be a very intimidating film in terms of its layers of complexity, references and post-modern treatment. But because of those various layers and a very relaxed, unpretentious approach, it correspondingly has many levels of accessibility, not least of which for many viewers, it has to be said, is the sight of Maggie Cheung running around for most of the film in a tight-fitting bondage outfit. DVD Times

Irma, nemmeno vent'anni, vive sola nel deserto del Messico: suo padre l'ha relegata in un casolare ai margini della comunità mennonita. Ha sposato uno straniero, che scandalo, ma suo padre ce l'ha con lei già da prima, da quando ha cominciato a crescere e pensare. Irma è spaesata, confusa. Ha sposato Jorge per fuggire con lui, e Jorge è fuggito da lei. I campi di granoturco e le scie degli aeroplani le sembrano così semplici, così veri; le relazioni umane, invece, grovigli inestricabili. Poi un giorno si alzano nuvole di polvere, sfrecciano pick-up sconosciuti: arriva una troupe del cinema e la realtà diventa un set. Ciascuno di colpo ha un ruolo preciso, anche Irma, che viene assoldata come interprete e diventa depositaria di tutti i segreti. Nel rimescolone di quel teatro improvviso, dove le lacrime vere sono finte e le lacrime finte sono vere, un filo teso troppo a lungo si spezza e Irma prende il volo..

Written and directed by Olivier Assayas, Irma Vep tells the story of has-been French filmmaker René Vidal (Jean-Pierre Léaud). In an attempt to reinvigorate his career, Vidal decides to remake Les Vampires, the classic silent serial featuring the adventures of jewel thief Irma Vep. Playing herself, actress Maggie Cheung is cast as the lead, joining Vidal on a chaotic set where he gets little respect from the rest of the cast and crew. Speaking no French, Cheung finds herself fending off the advances of lesbian costumer Zoé (Nathalie Richard), sticking up for Vidal, and becoming so immersed in her role that she burgles the guests of her hotel while in costume.

Comedy about a Parisian policeman who becomes the lover (and unwilling pimp) of a carefree street-walker. After falling in love with her, the officer conspires to limit her occupation by taking on an alter-ego, "Lord X", to serve as her sole client. Adapted from a successful musical.