French filmmaker René Vidal, once renowned, now faces a downward career trajectory after his recent films. He's remaking Les Vampires (1915) in Paris, starring Maggie Cheung, a Chinese actress from Hong Kong, as "Irma Vep", despite her not knowing French and being an unconventional choice.
Irma Vep
Maggie Cheung, playing a fictionalized version of herself, takes on the lead role in a French remake of the 1915 classic Les vampires, but creative tensions and personal conflicts threaten to derail the project.
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