Stanley Kwan's ACTRESS (the original Chinese title is the name of the actress) is a 3 hour docudrama about a heroine of 1930s films who committed suicide after an unhappy love affair. Kwan interviewed surviving directors and actors who worked with her and used clips from her own films while Maggie Cheung (star of Jackie Chan movies) reenacts the events of the times--Japanese invasion, political upheaval at home, etc. I believe--it's hard to get a grasp of all this unfamiliar material on one look--that one actress friend of the star is interviewed and portrayed in her youth by another actress--she may also appear in the film clips.