Irma Vep

Hong Kong action superstar Maggie Cheung plays herself in Olivier Assayas' brilliant satire of the movie industry.
Aging director Henri Vidal, has decided to film a remake of the legendary silent serial Les Vampires in hopes of making a comeback.Vidal chooses Cheung to play Irma Vep, the leader of a band of jewel thieves.Arriving in Paris unable to speak a word of French, Cheung finds herself stuck in the middles of a stressful situation when production begins to fall apart and Vidal suffers a nervous breakdown.