Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.
Direction
Ruiz's camera drifts through rooms like a bored ghost.
Acting
Mastroianni's four performances feel like parallel universes colliding.
Production
The chateau breathes—every room holds a different genre.
Director
Raúl Ruiz
Marcello Mastroianni
Mateo Strano / Georges Vickers / Butler / Luc Allamand
Anna Galiena
Maria Gabri - Colosso "Tania la Corse"
Marisa Paredes
Maria
Chiara Mastroianni
Cecile
Arielle Dombasle
Helene
Jean-Yves Gautier
Mario
Melvil Poupaud
Martin
Féodor Atkine
André
Pierre Bellemare
Radio Narrator
Smaïn
Luca
Lou Castel
Bum #1
Roland Topor
Bum #2
Jean Badin
Antoine José
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ruiz adapted this from stories by 19th-century writer Robert Louis Stevenson, though you'd never guess from the final product.
The chateau is the real protagonist—Ruiz shot in a genuine mansion where Napoleon III supposedly kept a secret lover, and its architecture dictates the film's dream logic.
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