Three Lives and Only One Death

The tales are framed in a contemporary Parisian setting, reflecting a modern urban milieu. Time itself behaves like a loose, malleable thread—years can vanish or reappear through fantastical events. The narrative moves between public spaces of academia, nightlife, and domestic interiors, underscoring a period of urban and cultural flux.

The film unfolds across Paris with the Sorbonne as a recurring hub for intellectual scenes and lectures. It also features intimate, bewitched spaces like a time-eating fairy apartment, a graveyard, and bustling cafés that anchor the shifting narratives. The city serves as a canvas where ordinary life collides with magical realism and metafiction.

⏳ Time

Time is a consumable resource, with tales describing fairies that devour years and turn life into a tapestry of shifting moments. The same actor traverses multiple roles, underscoring time as a fluid construct rather than a fixed metric. The stories knit together through temporal leaps, shaping memory, happiness, and loss.

🪪 Identity

Characters adopt alternate selves across the intertwined narratives, blurring lines between reality and performance. The film plays with identity as a mutable mask that characters wear across tales. This multiplicity challenges the notion of a singular, stable self.

🎲 Fortune

Gifts, money, and bargains drive the plot, revealing how fortune can empower yet corrode relationships. Generosity often mingles with coercion, hinting that prosperity carries its own tyranny. The interplay of luck and manipulation tests the characters' moral limits.

🔗 Convergence

The four stories gradually converge, with lives looping back into one another in unexpected ways. The narrative threads cross and resonate, culminating in a scene where all identities collide. The movie posits that truth and illusion are inseparable, endlessly remixing into new forms.