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My Case (1986)

★ 6.7/10 91 min Drama, Fantasy France, Portugal French
Screenplay by: Manoel de Oliveira
Writers: José Régio, Jacques Parsi
Short Story: Samuel Beckett
Streaming: Not available

Description

Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise. Surprisingly, a joke, repeated three times, each time everything sounds fresh and develops into an almost verbatim adaptation of the biblical "Book of Job" - a spectacular point in a parable about how hard to empathize with other people's misery, when you have your own.

Top Cast

Bulle Ogier
Bulle Ogier Actrice n° 1
Axel Bogousslavsky L'Employé
Luis Miguel Cintra
Luis Miguel Cintra L'Intrus
Fred Personne
Fred Personne L'Auteur
Wladimir Ivanovsky Le spectateur
Héloïse Mignot Actrice nº 2
Grégoire Oestermann
Grégoire Oestermann Le projectionniste
Henri Serre
Henri Serre Voix-off (voice)

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