If celebrity is the art form of our times, then Actresses is the most dizzying, hall-of-mirrors art project ever unleashed in a movie theater, like something Andy Warhol would have dreamed up if he was the editor of US Weekly. A minute-by-minute record of a Christmas Eve Vogue Korea cover shoot it features six of Korea's greatest actresses playing...themselves.

Youn Yuh-jung The fabulous old grand dame of Korean cinema. A bitchy, insecure diva who comes across like a Korean Bette Davis.

Lee Mi-suk One of the "Troika of the 80's" she ruled Korean screens in that decade but now age has mellowed her into a seen-it-all trooper.

Choi Ji-woo A model turned TV drama actress, Choi has an army of Japanese fans who fanatically worship her every move, naming her "Princess Ji-woo." This international fan base gives her a security that the other actresses envy.

Ko Hyun-jung A TV star who married into the wildly wealthy Samsung family in 1995, she retired from acting for almost ten years. Then she sparked a scandal by getting divorced, talking openly about her plastic surgery and returning to the screen where she became a favorite of arthouse auteur, Hong Sang-soo.

Kim Min-hee A trend-setting clothes-horse, Kim Min-hee is one of those young stars whose every dress sets a trend, whose every gesture is breathlessly captured by the paparazzi and whose every movement is scrutinized by the tabloids.

Kim Ok-vin The youngest of the bunch, she was discovered by director E J-Yong in his Dasepo Naughty Girls and sky-rocketed to fame when she was the only Korean actress willing to take on the overtly sexual leading role in Park Chan-wook's Thirst.

As the photo shoot breaks down into chaos, these actress send up their own identities, shuffling them as quickly as a magician cutting a rigged deck at dizzying speed. And at the end, E J-Yong, one of Korea's great directors of women, shows us that his actresses are slightly silly, slightly self-important, somewhat self-obsessed, completely self-sacrificing, stupid and smart in equal measure. It's a movie that fluently speaks the international language of celebrity.