Actor Antoine Basler (1966)

Irma Vep (1996), a French comedy-drama film written and directed by Olivier Assayas, tells the story of director René Vidal’s struggles during the making of a film-within-a-film. Playing the heroine, Irma Vep, is Maggie Cheung, sporting a tight black latex catsuit. The character’s name is actually an anagram for vampire and serves as inspiration for the criminal gang known as The Vampires in Feuillade’s original serial. As René and the team watch dailies, he becomes livid with disappointment and storms out, leaving Maggie stranded at the ...