Visage (2009)
Directed by Ming-liang Tsai

Film Synopsis

The Taiwanese director Hsiao Kang is tasked with making a film about the Biblical character Salome on the premises of the Louvre Museum in Paris.  To his way of thinking, nobody is better suited to play the role of King Herod than the veteran French actor and Nouvelle Vague icon Jean-Pierre Léaud, but whilst Kang gets his way with this casting choice, the selection of the actress to play the title role of Salome is entirely in the hands of the film's producers.  Anxious that the film should make as much money as possible, the latter opt for a famous and highly photogenic celebrity, namely a top model.  It isn't long before the film's production starts to go horribly awry.  Kang's inability to speak either French or English doesn't exactly help matters, but when he learns that his mother has just died the director seems to go into a deep trance from which nothing will awaken him.  Left to their own devices, the actors wander about and soon lose their way in the strange, undiscovered world beneath the ancient palace...