An experimental cut-up portrait of Maggie Chung made by Olivier Assayas for the Foundation of Contemporary Art.
Editing
Rapid-fire cuts that turn portraiture into possession.
Direction
Assayas at his most formally adventurous and personal.
Production
Experimental film as love letter to an iconic face.
Director
Olivier Assayas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This predates Assayas and Cheung's romantic relationship and eventual marriage by mere months—making it arguably the most expensive pickup line in film history.
The 'cut-up' technique references Burroughs and Gysin, but applied to a living star it becomes something more unsettling: the director as surgeon, the actress as specimen.
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