Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water (2009)
The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". His movie draws the Tsai Ming-Liang's face during the shooting of his movie Visage, which itself is also a movie within a movie.
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Cast
Laetitia Casta
as Self / The Star / Salomé
Laetitia Marie Laure Casta (born 11 May 1978) is a French actress and model. Casta became a "Guess Girl" in 1993 and gained further recognition as a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1998 to 2000 and as a...
Fanny Ardant
as Self / The producer / Queen Herodias
Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant (born 22 March 1949) is a French actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two César Awards and a Lumières Award.
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Lee Kang-sheng
as Self / Hsiao Kang - the director / St. John Baptist
Lee Kang-Sheng (Chinese: 李康生; Pinyin: Lǐ Kāngshēng; b. 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese actor, film director, and screenwriter. He has appeared in all of Tsai Ming-liang's theatrical feature fi...
Jean-Pierre Léaud
as Self / Antoine / King Herode
Jean-Pierre Léaud (born May 28, 1944) is a French actor, best known for playing Antoine Doinel in François Truffaut's series of films about that character, beginning with The 400 Blows (1959). He also...
Tsai Ming-liang
as Self as the film director of Visage
Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese: 蔡 明亮, Pinyin: Cài Míngliàng; born October 27, 1957) is a Malaysian-Taiwanese filmmaker. He has written and directed 11 feature films and has also directed many short films, t...
Vincent Wang
as Self as the #1 assistant director of Visage
Vincent Wang (Chinese Name: Wei Dong Wang) was born in the North West of China and trained in Chinese Martial Arts (Wu Shu) professionally since the age of 6. A graduate of Shanghai Sports University,...
Director
François Lunel