Seven individual stories each ending in the death of the main character, that is until fate (as in the form of Ventura Pons, the film maker) intervenes and re-writes history. To Die (or Not) gives us seven stories that are separate yet intertwined in their outcome. A desperate director with a creative block, a junky that just can’t quite the habit, a little girl who chokes on a chicken bone, a hospital patient who can’t reach the emergency call button, a woman who swallows too many pills, a biker run down by the police and a businessman who is laid low by a hired assassin. In part one, To Die, each character meets their death head on while the people around them struggle to take meaning in the events. Then in part two Or Not, the clock is turned back and we see how one slight change of events effects all that could have occurred.

1999/Color/Spain/92 Minutes/Catalan w/ English subtitles/1999

Produced and Directed by Ventrua Pons

Based on a Story by Sergi Balbel

Starring Carme Elias, Lluis Homar, Roger Coma and Marc Martinez

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