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Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

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Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

Trois vies et une seule mort (1996)
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | PAL 16:9 | Cover | 02:00:10 | 7,64 Gb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Portuguese
Genre: Art-house

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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In a film which looks suspiciously as if was conceived as a swansong for the legendary Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni , Chilean director Raoul Ruiz achieves a masterful melange of the surreal, the absurd, the melancholy and the quite frankly disturbing. All of Ruiz’ films have the character of a puzzle about them, but Trois vies et une seule mort remains his most baffling and intellectually demanding work to date. This is one of those films where the closer you look, the more inexplicable it appears. Yet, no matter how deeply you probe, you still have the feeling that it all makes some kind of sense. Even the bizarre flights of fancy into Buñelesque surrealism appear believable, as Ruiz has somehow succeeded in warping our understanding of the world around us.

Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

This is not an easy film to watch – it requires a great deal of concentration, a certain amount of imagination and a willingness on the part of the spectator to participate in it. For anyone who is prepared to invest the effort to make the experience work, Trois vies et une seule mort is a hugely satisfying film, which offers a substantial payback through its twisted comedy and the feeling that you have at least partly solved a profoundly complex mystery.

Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

Where Ruiz excels is in the area of cinematography – his films are so beautifully filmed that they can on that basis alone be considered as works of art. In this film, this particular talent allows him to conjure up a world which is neither fantasy nor real, but existing in some sinister twilight world between the two, where the rules of normal everyday experience are obeyed, but only up to a point. It is this which gives the film the character of a dream, and which makes the film resist our attempts to find some rational explanation in what we see. Consciously we know that it is all an incoherent jumble, yet something compels us to keep looking for a pattern. We delude ourselves into thinking we have the explanation, but when the film ends we realise how flawed and subjective our interpretation is. In a similar vein to the writings of Frantz Kafka and the films of Alain Resnais, the film mocks our confidence in the notion of an objective reality. We can trust – or distrust – whatever we see in this film, to the extent that no two spectators will end up drawing the same conclusions. This level of conscious subjectivity is comparatively rare in cinema, something which make this film special and particularly rewarding.

Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

Marcello Mastroianni’s presence dominates the film, indeed haunts it like a world-weary ghost. It goes without saying that in this, his last film appearance bar one, his performance (or rather performances, since he plays four characters), is faultless. In the film’s chilling third segment (a mixture of children’s fairytale and Edgar Allen Poe), we have the pleasure of seeing the great actor appearing alongside his real-life daughter, Chiara Mastroianni. There is a palpable sense of regret when Mastroianni walks off into the sunset at the end of the film, and irony that a man who has brought to life so many characters should himself die but once.
James Travers, Films de France
Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

"THREE LIVES and Only One Death" was a bright spot in this year's impressive Mill Valley Film Festival. In it Marcello Mastroianni, who died Thursday, plays four comic roles. Chilean director Raul Ruiz wisely allows the great actor to romp through this convoluted story of a wanderer, a businessman, a professor and a butler.

The tales are presented as separate but intertwining threads of one thick rope, a concept that works chiefly because Ruiz and script collaborator Pascal Bonitzer have designed a smoothly flowing, eccentric movie that is as much fun to watch as it to try to figure out.

Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

First, Mastroianni plays Mateo, a traveling salesman who suddenly leaves his wife (Marisa Paredes) for no apparent reason, and who manages to stay out of her way for the next 20 years even though he only moves across the street.

The next character is George, a professor of negative anthropology, whatever that is, at the Sorbonne. He too takes a leave of absence from his ordinary life, but in this case to be with a prostitute (Anna Galiena).

Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

His third role is as an otherworldly butler who drives a poor young couple (Chiara Mastroianni and Melvil Poupaud) nuts when they inherit a house on the condition that they continue to employ the recalcitrant servant. Chiara, the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello, is as always understated and astute in her performance.

Finally, Mastroianni is Luc, a high-powered entrepreneur who is mystified when the family he thought he had cleverly invented for making convenient excuses actually shows up.

Ruiz, who directed "The Territory" and "Dark at Noon," wrote this script specifically for Mastroianni, and he takes advantage of the actor's unique ability to convey an odd combination of simultaneous insanity and rationality.

Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

Mastroianni played men who seem to be one thing but turn out to be something else entirely, and Ruiz takes this notion and applies it to all his characters. The prostitute has an unexpected weakness for the writings of Carlos Castaneda. And she is in fact the head of a large successful corporation.

This movie is enormously entertaining, full of odd surprises and the happy presence of a wonderful actor who only got better as he got older.
Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)

Special Features:
- Short film Colloque de Chiens (God Symposium) 20:39
- Interview with Raoul Ruiz 14:39
- Interview with Melvil Poupaud 8:37
- Filmography and Photo gallery

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