Trois vies et une seule mort

The film tells and intertwines its four fantastic as well as comic, absurd as well as mysterious stories so skillfully that we and the protagonists casually accept all the monstrosities. A terrific Marcello Mastroianni navigates through all episodes in four roles, as a victim of time-manipulating fairies, a professor of negative anthropology, a butler conditioned to ring bells, and an industrial tycoon whom his own fictitious family wants to visit - but are they really four people? Doubts increasingly creep in, and in the end a quite unlikely mastermind of the whole affair turns up for the showdown. (Barbara Kronsfoth)

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Raúl Ruiz: TRES TRISTES TIGRES (1968), EL REALISMO SOCIALISTA (1973), DIALOGUES OF EXILES (1975), BÉRÉNICE (1983), POINT DE FUITE (1984), MÉMOIRE DES APPARENCES (1986), L’OEIL QUI MENT (1992), FADO MAJEUR ET MINEUR (1994), TROIS VIES ET UNE SEULE MORT (1996), GÉNÉALOGIES D’UN CRIME (1997), COMÉDIE DE L’INNOCENCE (2000), KLIMT (2006), MISTÉRIOS DE LISBOA (2010)