Directed by:
Raoul RuizCinematography:
Laurent MachuelComposer:
Jorge ArriagadaCast:
Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes, Melvil Poupaud, Chiara Mastroianni, Arielle Dombasle, Féodor Atkine, Andrew Wilson, Smaïn Fairouze (more)Plots(1)
Marcello Mastroianni stars as a man who shares four names and four personalities (which is the real one?). This mysterious figure is the link between four different, yet strangely similar, stories involving love, lust, crime and time. 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... 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... 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 (Marcello Mastroianni). (Cinemax)
(more)Cast
Marcello Mastroianni
Italy
Best movies:
A Special Day (1977)
Like Father, Like Son (1957)
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Anna Galiena
Italy
Best movies:
Falcone (1999) (TV movie)
Stay Away From Me (2013)
Unpredictable Nature of the River (1996)
Marisa Paredes
Spain
Best movies:
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
All About My Mother (1999)
Talk to Her (2002)
Melvil Poupaud
France
Best movies:
Laurence Anyways (2012)
An Officer and a Spy (2019)
A Tale of Summer (1996)
Chiara Mastroianni
France
Best movies:
Persepolis (2007)
Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die (1995)
Les Chansons d'Amour (2007)
Arielle Dombasle
USA
Best movies:
Pauline at the Beach (1983)
Alibi.com 2 (2023)
Perceval (1978)
Féodor Atkine
France
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Love and Death (1975)
Docteur Teyran (1980) (TV movie)
Andrew Wilson
USA
Best movies:
Rushmore (1998)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Whip It (2009)
Smaïn Fairouze
Algeria
Best movies:
The Telephone Always Rings Twice (1985)
Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
One Can Always Dream (1991)
Lou Castel
Colombia
Best movies:
Fists in the Pocket (1965)
The Leopard (1963)
What Time Is It? (1989)
Roland Topor
France
Best movies:
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Ratataplan (1979)
Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
Agathe Bonitzer
France
Best movies:
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (2010)
La Nouvelle Femme (2023)
Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
Pascal Bonitzer
France
Best movies:
Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die (1995)
Love on the Ground (1984)
The Brontë Sisters (1979)
Nanni Moretti
Italy
Best movies:
Padre padrone (1977)
Quiet Chaos (2008)
Dear Diary (1993)
Monique Mélinand
France
Best movies:
To Die of Love (1971)
Three Murderesses (1959)
The Mouth Agape (1974)
Marilyne Canto
France
Best movies:
One for the Road (2009)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (2011)
The Actress' Ball (2009)
Luc Delhumeau
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1982)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) (series)
Yoyo (1965)
Jacques Pieiller
Best movies:
Time Regained (1999)
Le Voyage en douce (1980)
Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
Julien Vialon
France
Best movies:
Rush (2013)
Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
The Counselor (2013)
Jean Badin
Best movies:
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999) (TV movie)
Crossroads (1986)
Time Regained (1999)