Three Lives and Only One Death
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Raúl Ruiz
Arielle Dombasle
Chiara Mastroianni
Bastien Vincent
Marisa Paredes
Jacques Pieiller
Film Details
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Synopsis
In the first of four comical tales of social dissonance, a traveling salesman, Mateo Strano, walks out on his wife Maria. Twenty years later, he returns and lures her new husband to his apartment across the street where he has been hiding with strange, supernatural spirits. In the second tale, Georges Vickers, a professor of "negative anthropology" at the Sorbonne, drops everything to become a homeless beggar. Vickers meets Tania, a kinky prostitute whose only fault, in his eyes, is her appreciation of writer Carlos Castaneda. Vickers soon learns that Tania has also been leading a double life--she is the president of a huge corporation. In the third tale, a penniless young couple inherit a magnificent mansion and an endowment on the condition that they keep the butler. Gradually, they realize he is both their servant and benefactor. The final tale ties together the other three, but introduces Luc Allamand, a successful businessman whose imaginary family suddenly arrives in Paris to visit him.
Director
Raúl Ruiz
Cast
Arielle Dombasle
Chiara Mastroianni
Bastien Vincent
Marisa Paredes
Jacques Pieiller
Melvil Poupaud
Ftodor Atkine
Jean-philippe Gauthier
Marcello Mastroianni
Roland Topor
Anna Galiena
Monique Melinand
Jacques Delpi
Pierre Bellemare
Lou Castel
Jean Badin
Crew
Jacques Ahrex
Jorge Arriagada
Elisabeth Bocquet
Pascal Bonitzer
Paulo Branco
Michel Casang
Luc Chalon
Barbara Constantine
Laurent Machuel
David Mitnik
Laurent Poirier
Gilles Porte
Stephane Riga
Gerard Rousseau
Raúl Ruiz
Philippe Saal
Rodolfo Wedeles
Solange Zeitoun
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1996
Released in United States 1997
Released in United States Fall October 11, 1996
Released in United States May 1996
Released in United States November 29, 1996
Shown at Cannes Film Festival (in competition) May 9-20, 1996.
Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 22 - September 2, 1996.
Shown at New York Film Festival September 29 - October 13, 1996.
Shown at Portland International Film Festival February 13 - March 2, 1997.
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival January 29 - February 9, 1997.
Released in United States 1996 (Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 22 - September 2, 1996.)
Released in United States 1996 (Shown at New York Film Festival September 29 - October 13, 1996.)
Released in United States 1997 (Shown at Portland International Film Festival February 13 - March 2, 1997.)
Released in United States 1997 (Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival January 29 - February 9, 1997.)
Released in United States May 1996 (Shown at Cannes Film Festival (in competition) May 9-20, 1996.)
Released in United States Fall October 11, 1996
Released in United States November 29, 1996 (Nuart; Los Angeles)
