PARIS (AFP) - Myanmars democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi gets a celluloid reincarnation 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. Suu Kyis struggle for her country came at a high personal cost. Her husband died in 1999 in Britain, and in the final stages of his battle with cancer the Myanmar junta denied him a visa to see his wife. Suu Kyi refused to leave Myanmar to see him, certain she would never have been allowed to return. It was the price she had to pay, said Luc Besson. Thousands of people give their lives unquestioningly, simply because they believe it is a just cause. The love that united her with her husband gave her immense strength, said Michelle Yeoh. The daughter of Myanmars assassinated independence hero General Aung San, Suu Kyi began her own political career late after spending much of her life abroad. She studied at Oxford University, had two sons after marrying Aris and looked like she was going to settle into life in Britain.