Burma's democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi gets a celluloid reincarnation today when a movie version of her life by Fifth Element and The Big Blue director Luc Besson goes on release in France.

Malaysian star Michelle Yeoh, a former 'Bond girl', plays 'The Lady' in a two-hour biopic that focuses on the private life of Suu Kyi, her British husband Michael Aris and their two sons.