A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.

Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the period. It corresponds to Joseph Mankiewicz's 1963 Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton which Auder's cast watched and used as the starting point for scene by scene improvisation Auder drew his cast from Warhol's ensemble – including not only Viva and Louis Waldon, but also Taylor Mead, Ondine, Andrea Feldman, Gerard Melanga and others.

A biopic about Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

52岁的凯撒（雷克斯·哈里森 饰）以罗马执行官的身份驾临埃及，为了解决王室姐弟争位的事端。皇姐克里奥佩特拉（伊丽莎白·泰勒 饰）美艳绝伦，凭借自身的魅力和政治手腕，迅速让凯撒拜倒在她的石榴裙下，不但获得了对埃及的统治权，而且还以美貌征服了罗马。 　　克氏与凯撒完婚后，为其产下一子，深得凯撒喜欢，被立为继承人。但此事引起了凯撒手下大将安东尼（理查德·伯顿 饰）与屋大维（罗迪·麦克道尔 饰）的不满。在凯撒遇刺驾崩之后，安东尼接掌了罗马的统治权，但他同样无法抵挡克氏的绝世美貌。当安东尼彻底沉溺于暴风雨般爱情的时候，身在罗马的屋大维已经吹响了夺权的号角。

Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.

Behind the scenes of Chabat's take on Asterix.