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.
as Self / The Star / Salomé
as Self / The producer / Queen Herodias
as Self / Hsiao Kang - the director / St. John Baptist
as Self / Antoine / King Herode
as Self as the film director of Visage
as Self as the #1 assistant director of Visage