Three Lives and Only One Death (Trois vies et une seule mort) (1996)

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Directed by

Raoul Ruiz

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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
Cécile

Arielle Dombasle
Hélène

Féodor Atkine
André

Jean-Yves Gautier
Mario

Written by

Pascal Bonitzer

Raoul Ruiz

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A good movie

11 years, 8 months ago at Aug 29 8:23

johanlefourbe

Raoul Ruiz is not really well known here in listal but he is actually a quite interesting director. He actually died in 2011 but he had a productive career, directing more than 100 movies. Even though he was Chilean, most of those movies were made in France as he fled his home-country from Pinochet's dictatorship. Anyway, I heard a lot about the guy so I was really intrigued by his work and when I... read more

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Description: In his second-to-last role, Marcello Mastroianni stars as a husband, a professor, a butler, and a businessman in Ruiz’s light-hearted, Borgesian salute to fantasy life and the telling of tales, arguably the director’s most accessible and commercially successful film involving the complete destruction of narrative. Here a radio announcer begins one story, which is then continued by another character, who begins to tell another tale, and so on, with each tale getting increasingly stranger and more delightful. Absent husbands, invalid mothers, professors of “negative anthropology,” good-hearted prostitutes, naïve young lov ... (more)

Release date: 15 May 1996

Tags: French (2), Hammer Murder (1), Radio Presenter (1), Double Life (1), Lecturer (1), Sort (1), Begging (1), Bell Ringing (1), SnP (1), Death In Title (1), Dominatrix (1), Traveling Salesman (1), Burying A Dead Body (1), Sorbonne (1), Upside Down Camera Shot (1), Several Lives (1), Real Life Father And Daughter Playing Father And Daughter (1), Number 3 In Title (1), Killed With A Hammer (1), Actor Playing Multiple Roles (1)

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