WHO is that woman in black? None other than Hong Kong superstar Maggie Cheung, whose role in “Irma Vep” (1996) required her to dress in tight, black latex from head to toe.

You might think it would be awfully hot inside that outfit. Not so, Cheung told me when the film was first released.

“We were shooting in January, and it was freezing. And you can’t wear anything underneath [the latex]. It was cold, not hot.”

Cheung plays herself, a star who goes to Paris to headline a remake of Louis Feuillade’s 1915-16 silent serial “Les Vampires.” (“Irma Vep” is an anagram of “vampire.”) The director of the remake is played by the beloved Jean-Pierre Leaud, star of so many Godard and Truffaut movies.

“He’s the strangest actor I’ve ever worked with,” Cheung said of Leaud. “Nobody can guess what he’s going to do next.”

“Irma Vep” is one of eight films directed and/or written by France’s Olivier Assayas, who was once married to Cheung, that will unreel Saturday through Feb. 10 at Anthology Film Archives.

Assayas is expected to introduce Saturday’s 9:30 p.m. showing of “Irma Vep.”

The retro includes another Assayas-Cheung teaming, “Clean” (2004), in which the actress plays a singer trying to get off drugs so she can regain custody of her young son. Nick Nolte portrays the boy’s grandfather.

Also showing is “HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-hsien” (1997), Assayas’ profile of the famed Taiwanese filmmaker.

The Anthology is at Second Avenue and Second Street in the East Village; (212) 505-5181.

* “The Eye,” a Hollywood remake of the 2002 Hong Kong chiller by brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, opens on Friday.

There won’t be any reviews in that day’s papers, since the distributor, Lionsgate, has chosen to hide the flick from critics. That’s a sure sign that the reworking, with Jessica Alba, is a dud.

You’re better off finding a DVD of the original. While you’re at it, check out the Pangs’ 1999 Thai thriller “Bangkok: Dangerous,” in which a deaf hit man falls for the woman in the drugstore where he buys painkillers.

V.A. Musetto is film editor of The Post; vam@nypost.com