Maggie Cheung still plays hard to get, even in Venice

Meanwhile, Cheung is using the down time to “age a bit,” she said, adding that while she is based in Hong Kong her “love life” now takes her to Beijing.

“I'm at the age that of course I still want to do something like 'In the Mood' that I look beautiful and everything (but) you have to know where you are.”

Declaring herself to be “in between,” she said: “I feel that at my age I'm a bit too young to play the grandmother yet, and a bit too old to be Jackie's girlfriend,” referring to her opposite number Jackie Chan in the “Police Story” series.

“Maybe I'll come back to cinema and play a woman who is not the same as the woman I was playing before,” Cheung said. “I will feel better when I am looking a bit older and can play older and forget about all that... You can still be old and beautiful in other ways, but I don't think I've reached there yet.”

Meanwhile, Cheung has taken up music, and dreams of being able to score a film. “If I could make music for films that would be a joy,” she said.

In “Better Life,” Cheung plays the goddess Mazu from a 15th-century Chinese fable, one of three interweaving “ghost stories” in Julien's examination of why people migrate, often risking everything for a worse fate than staying home.

“He found a very good way to put the images to these ideas,” Cheung said.

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