Three Lives and Only One Death (1996) ( Trois vies & une seule mort ) ( Três Vidas E Uma Só Morte (3 Lives and Only 1 Death) )

Three Lives and Only One Death (1996) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Trois vies & une seule mort
Alternate Title: Três Vidas E Uma Só Morte (3 Lives and Only 1 Death)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
120 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1996 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Portugal ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Raoul Ruiz

Written By:
Pascal Bonitzer
Raoul Ruiz

Actors:
Marcello Mastroianni ..... Mateo Strano / Georges Vickers / Butler / Luc Allamand
Anna Galiena ..... Maria Gabri-Colosso, "Tania la Corse"
Marisa Paredes ..... María
Melvil Poupaud ..... Martin
Chiara Mastroianni ..... Cecile
Arielle Dombasle ..... Helene
Féodor Atkine ..... Andre
Jean-Yves Gautier ..... Mario
Jacques Pieiller ..... Tania's Husband
Pierre Bellemare ..... Radio Narrator
Smaïn ..... Luca
Lou Castel ..... Bum #1
Roland Topor ..... Bum #2
Jacques Delpi ..... Bum #3
Jean Badin ..... Antoine José

Synopsis:

The same characters experience different realities across four separate stories in this experimental exploration of truth and identity. In one, Parisian salesman Mateo Strano (Marcello Mastroianni) abandons his wife, Maria (Marisa Paredes), then reemerges two decades later. In another, a professor becomes a panhandler. Next, a butler serves a young couple that has inherited a large house. And finally, a business mogul is confronted by a family he thought he had made up.

A radio broadcaster narrates a series of remarkable tales from his studio, beginning with the story of travelling salesman Mateo Strano. After a period of twenty years, Strano returns to his first wife Maria to find that she is living with another man, André. Having gained Andre's confidence by telling him that he has been bewitched by fairies for the past two decades, Strano lures André to his apartment and kills him, before reacquainting himself with Maria. In the next story, a professor at the Sorbonne, Georges Vickers, turns his back on his invalid mother, his home and his job and finds he can earn just as much money as a tramp. He is befriended by a prostitute, Tania, who turns out to be the head of a large company. The third story begins with a couple of newly weds, Martin and Cecile, discovering that they have a mysterious benefactor. The impecunious couple learn that they have inherited a château along with a valet whom they must keep at all costs. When they realise that they are being slowly poisoned, the young couple make a quick exit. Finally, wealthy industrialist Luc Allamand starts to have a mental collapse when the family he invented to impress his clients suddenly enter his life. In an explosive finale, the four main protagonists in these four stories turn out to be fragments of the same man...

Take a walk into the weird world of filmmaker Raul Ruiz as he takes us to Paris for a twisted ride. A man which shares four names and four personalities (which is the real one?) is the link between four different, yet similar, stories involving love, lust, crime, and time.

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